情报在上下文:一个特定于背景的思维方式更好地预测科学和数学本科生的结果
1Department of Biological Sciences, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX 79409.
CBE life sciences education
|March 7, 2025
概括
一项新的科学特定心态调查 (ULTrA) 比一般心态测量更好地预测本科生学术成功. 这种特定上下文的方法揭示了旧的,更广泛的评估中错过的重要关系.
科学领域:
- 教育心理学教育心理学
- 认知科学 认知科学
- 高等教育研究 高等教育研究
背景情况:
- 思想,或关于智力可塑性的信念,对于学生的成功至关重要.
- 一般的思维方式措施可能会忽略特定环境对学生成绩的影响.
- 本科生能力理论 (ULTrA) 调查为科学和数学本科生提供了特定背景的测量方法.
研究的目的:
- 为了比较特定情境思维度 (ULTrA) 与一般情境度的预测能力.
- 调查思维方式与各种本科学术成果的关联.
- 为了确定一个特定环境的测量是否提供了独特的见解到学生的成功.
主要方法:
- 采访了1537名本科生,使用Dweck的原始思维度和ULTrA调查.
- 评估结果包括归属感,目标导向,自我障碍,评估关注,坚持科学意图和课程成绩.
- 采用结构方程建模来分析思维方式措施与结果之间的关系.
主要成果:
- ULTrA调查显示,与最初的思维方式衡量方法相比,与学生成果的关系更强大,更一致.
- ULTrA是唯一预测的结果差异,而不是一般措施所考虑的.
- 学术成果,如坚持的意图和课程成绩与ULTrA有显著的联系,但不是一般的衡量标准.
结论:
- 像ULTrA这样的特定背景思维措施在捕捉与本科生学术成果的关系方面更有效.
- ULTrA调查可以确定与学生成功的关键关联,一般措施可能会错过.
- 利用特定背景的思维方式评估对于全面了解学生在STEM领域的表现至关重要.
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