The influences of curriculum area and student background on mindset to learning in the veterinary curriculum: a pilot study.

ABSTRACT: A student's mindset influences their achievement and response to challenge, with a 'fixed mindset' encouraging disengagement from challenging tasks and avoidance of learning and feedback opportunities. These behaviours resemble those reported for professional and non-clinical curriculum areas, which are important for employability and resilience in veterinary practice. Students with a 'growth mindset' to learning are more persistent when faced with challenges and actively seek more demanding tasks. They also demonstrate higher levels of psychological well-being. The objectives of this study were to explore whether variation in veterinary students' mindset to learning exists across different curriculum areas, and to identify whether students' backgrounds influence their learning mindset. Th

SUBMITTER: Armitage-Chan E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7155418 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature