In Carol Dweck’s micro lecture for Stanford Alumni (2014), she defines a fixed mindset as believing that one only has a certain amount of “stuff” and that they cannot get any more....
Everyone is capable of mastering any competency when given the appropriate amount of time and support. This statement is supported by a variety of research, including the research included in Ericsson...
For a personalized learning environment to be effective, learners need to have some degree of agency. Agency refers to their ability to feel like they have control over what is going on around them....
The development of a learner’s executive function may be the most important task for modern educations. Executive function refers to the high-level cognitive skills that humans use to manage...
Whether it’s called mastery-based or competency-based education, the premise is the same: education should focus on teaching in a way that each and every learner truly masters the content before...