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Carey Bernini Dowling; C. Veronica Smith; Yue Yin; Jeffrey M. Williams – Journal of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 2025
People view many attributes, including intelligence, through implicit theories (or mindsets). Entity mindsets position the attribute as unchangeable or static, whereas incremental mindsets see the attribute as malleable or capable of being changed/improved (Dweck & Leggett, 1988). The present studies examined a new questionnaire designed to…
Descriptors: Grade Point Average, Undergraduate Students, Study Habits, Intelligence
Nesselroad, Elizabeth M.; Vargas, Julie S. – 1970
This study asked whether or not points which could add to a student's grade would reinforce studying in high school students. The study was conducted in a tenth grade biology class of 33 college bound, lower-class students. Four additional people were present in the class: two observers and two teacher aides to administer points. To accurately…
Descriptors: Behavior, Behavior Change, Behavior Patterns, Grade Point Average
Dochen, Carol; Johnson, De – 1980
Over a period of three years an experimental program was conducted at Southwest Texas State University to help increase the number of successful completions of admission contract conditions by transfer students with low grade point averages. An increase in the number of students successfully meeting the required grade point average of…
Descriptors: Academic Failure, Behavior Patterns, Credit Courses, Educational Research