A noted researcher, and professor of psychology at such prestigious universities as Stanford, Harvard, and Columbia, Dweck (2006), asserts that the idea behind teaching growth mindset over a fixed mindset is to “give kids greater confidence, give them a path into the future that creates greater persistence.” She presents this growth mindset theory with the intention of training a generation of educators and learners to adopt a new way of thinking. Since its inception, the Growth Mindset Theory has been both widely acclaimed and criticized.
In Dweck’s book Mindset: The New Psychology of Success, published by Ballantine books in 2006, the author offers a study of intelligence as a malleable trait that all people can develop. Recent offerings to this ever-expanding field, are Robert J Sternberg’s Triarchic Theory of Intelligence (1985), Howard Gardner’s Multiple Intelligence Theory (1983) and Growth Mindset Theory, the brainchild of Dr. In the early 1900s and throughout the twentieth century, an increased interest in this field would lead to the development of theories by prominent psychologists such as Jean Piaget, Alfred Binet, Charles Spearman, and William Stern who coined the term “intelligence quotient” or “IQ” as it is commonly known.
The human mind has historically been the subject of research on cognitive ability and ways to measure intelligence.
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