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ERIC Number: EJ1473393
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2025-Dec
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ISSN: ISSN-1381-2890
EISSN: EISSN-1573-1928
Available Date: 2025-06-02
Teacher Support as a Context of Growth Mindset in Predicting Reading Achievement
Yuyang Cai1; Keke Xing2; Qianwen Ge3
Social Psychology of Education: An International Journal, v28 n1 Article 117 2025
The concept of growth mindset has been touted as a promising tool to empower learning, but mixed effects emerge. Growth mindset advocates are calling for more attention to the heterogeneity of growth mindset, namely, the interference of other factors at individual or contextual levels (e.g., teacher variables) with the relationship between growth mindset and learning achievements. To seek more evidence for this assumption, the current study explored the role of students' perception of their teacher support in predicting the quantity of growth mindset and the magnitude of the association between growth mindset and learning achievement in reading. We drew on the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) 2018 data from 507,354 students from 74 countries/territories. We analyzed the data with multilevel structural equation modeling with latent interaction. Our findings showed that perceived teacher support did not significantly predict the quantity of growth mindset. Besides, perceived teacher support positively moderated the relationship between growth mindset and reading achievement. Specifically, when teacher support was deficient, the relationship between growth mindset and reading achievement was negative; when teacher support continually increased, the relationship between growth mindset and reading achievement gradually switched to positive. These results indicated that teacher support plays a game-changing role in the relationship between growth mindset and reading achievement, therefore highlighting its significance in revealing the heterogeneous effect of a growth mindset effect on learning achievements.
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Secondary Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Assessments and Surveys: Program for International Student Assessment
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Author Affiliations: 1Shanghai University of International Business and Economics, Centre for Language Education and Assessment Research (CLEAR) & School of Languages, Shanghai, China; 2Shanghai University of International Business and Economics, School of Languages, Shanghai, China; 3Shanghai International Studies University, School of English Studies, Shanghai, China