Brain points: a deeper look at a growth mindset incentive structure for an educational game.

摘要

This research builds on previous work by the authors and follows up with an experimental design that adds depth to the original paper. A growth mindset is the belief that student intelligence can be taught and will increase over time. This research encourages a growth mindset by "using a novel brain points incentive structure that directly rewards students for their [persistence and] effort." Following up from the previous research, the authors constructed five different versions of an educational game to answer four research questions. One version of the game was used as the control while the other four versions examined each of the question variables of the research topic.