Summary Of The Secret To Raising Smart Kids

“The Secret to Raising Smart Kids” by psychologist Carol S. Dweck is a scientific research article focused on encouraging parents and teachers to promote growth mind-set rather than fixed mind-set to allow students to be successful in school and life. A challenge many teachers and parents are facing today is due to society’s stigma that innate intelligence produces success. Teachers and parents are praising the intelligence of kids rather than valuing the process of learning to be successful; as the parsing of intelligence allows kids to be susceptible to failure and afraid to face challenges. There several theories and researches conducted to understand and fix the problem among fixed mind-set versus growth mind-set. There are two views of intelligence that separate a growth mind-set and a fixed mind-set student. To prove that students with a growth mind-set will outperform students with a fixed-mind set was performed by Psychologists Dweck where she monitored over 350 middle schooler who were transitioning to high school. As classes get harder year by year, researcher Dweck wanted to examine how the fixed and growth mind-sets will affect student’s math grades. As a result, students with a growth mind-set viewed learning as an important goal rather than just receiving good grades. And the students who had a fixed mind-set were
She was curious as to why some kids give up while others strive to achieve their intended goal when no one is more skilled than the other. The research she conducted gave her the answer she needed. As it has to do with why students believe they failed. Dweck gave one group of fifth graders hard math problems to solve and another group easy math problems to solve. The helpless easy group was rewarded but did not learn how to solve hard math problems. The group with the hard math problems indicated an eagerness to