Four Moves to Motivate Students in Problem Solving

Autor/inn/en	Deshpande, Anjali; Guglielmo, Shannon
Titel	Four Moves to Motivate Students in Problem Solving
Quelle	In: Mathematics Teacher, 112 (2019) 7, S.510-515 (6 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0025-5769
Schlagwörter	Student Motivation; Problem Solving; Motivation Techniques; Mathematics Instruction; Teaching Methods; Persistence; High School Students; Self Concept + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Schulische Motivation; Problemlösen; Motivationsförderung; Mathematics lessons; Mathematikunterricht; Teaching method; Lehrmethode; Unterrichtsmethode; Ausdauer; High school; High schools; Student; Students; Oberschule; Schüler; Schülerin; Studentin; Selbstkonzept
Abstract	In recent years, increased attention has been given to the ideas of growth mindsets, brain science, and mathematical mindsets thanks to the important contributions by Dweck (2008), Boaler (2015), and their research teams. Many math teachers invest the time and energy into thinking about what motivates students to learn. The body of work on mindsets, or how students "perceive their abilities" (Boaler 2013; Dweck 2015), struck math teachers Anjali Deshpande and Shannon Guglielmo as particularly important. They used what they learned about mindsets to develop an inquiry project, including student surveys and focus groups, to explore how specific teaching practices motivate students to persist in problem-solving. The first step in the inquiry project was to administer Dweck's (2007) Mindset Assessment Profile (MAP) to Guglielmo's students to learn about where they were on the continuum between fixed and growth mindsets. The goal was to investigate pedagogical strategies that have an impact on student growth mindsets; therefore, Deshpande and Guglielmo gave the survey twice during the year (September and June) to detect any change in mindsets over time. The survey data was reduced to MAP scores, as recommended by the authors of the MindsetWorks materials. Student MAP scores ranged from neutral to strong growth mindsets in the fall and summer. They then constructed change score quartiles by subtracting the September score from the June score, naming the September to June change score quartiles as students who: (1) maintained a growth mindset score (higher-higher); (2) maintained a more neutral mindset score (neutral-neutral); (3) started with a more neutral mindset and developed a growth mindset score (neutral-higher); and (4) started with a growth mindset score and ended the year with a neutral mindset score (higher-neutral). They then randomly selected students from each change score quartile to form focus groups of four to six students each, running for about 25 minutes each. The focus group data indicated that four pedagogical moves had the most impact in motivating students to engage and persist in problem solving. (ERIC).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2020/1/01