Studies indicate that racial disparities in STEM achievement or equity grade gaps are
associated with faculty fixed mindset beliefs; however, whether specific instructional beliefs …

An important goal of the scientific community is broadening the achievement and
participation of racial minorities in STEM fields. Yet, professors' beliefs about the fixedness of …

Students' motivational beliefs, such as disciplinary intelligence mindsets, can influence their
physics performance and persistence. Intelligence mindset beliefs have long been argued to …

Two experiments and 2 field studies examine how college students' perceptions of their
science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) professors' mindset beliefs …

Across undergraduate STEM learning contexts in several countries, students' intrapersonal
attributes of epistemic beliefs, self-efficacy beliefs, intrinsic motivation, and sense of identity …

Two decades of research consistently demonstrates that students' beliefs about the
malleability of intelligence (also known as “mindsets”) influence their motivation and …

Background The growing understanding of the oppressive inequities that exist in
postsecondary education has led to an increasing need for culturally relevant pedagogy …

The purpose of this study was to investigate the math and science beliefs of
underrepresented students, with a focus on first‐generation college (FGC) students. We do …

Beliefs about relative academic performance may shape field specialization and explain
gender gaps in STEM enrollment, but little causal evidence exists. To test whether these …

Two studies investigate how science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) professors'
fixed mindsets—the belief that intelligence is fixed and unchangeable—may induce …