How can you measure your students' mindset for learning?

I know it sounds an impossible task. Or at least a complicated one involving expensive tests that can only be conducted by educational psychologists.  Not necessarily.

As you’ll know Carol Dweck has devoted her career to this topic and the distinctions she has discovered are very useful for teachers. As are those of the lesser known psychologist, at least in the UK, Robert Marzano. 

I’ve put their ideas down into a single questionnaire you can use with your students. Whenever I lead Geoff Petty’s Evidence Based Teaching course, teachers all ask me for a copy.

Use the questionnaire to generate a discussion, make parallels with successful people and build on this self–awareness for students to generate their own personal targets.

You may even like to try it out yourself and check to see if you are modeling the qualities you expect from your students.

References:
Dweck, C. S. (2006) Mindset, the New Psychology of Success, Ballentine Books
Marzano, R. et al (2001), Classroom Instruction that Works, ASCD.