Making Mistakes

According to paragraphs two and three, what is the goal of Schroder’s study?

• to help children learn from their mistakes rather than ignore them

• to see how children and adults respond differently to mistakes

• to see how people respond to mistakes and how it affects their learning

• to explore why some children ignore their mistakes and others accept them

According to paragraph six, what are scientists studying in the participants?

• whether they have "growth mindset" or "set mindset"

• their emotional response to making a mistake

• how quickly they can play and win the game

• their brain activity when they make mistakes

This article helps the reader to understand that people with growth mindset...

• learn from their mistakes

• are less hard on themselves

• make fewer mistakes

• are overall more intelligent

Which of the following describes the central idea of the text?

• accepting and learning from your mistakes helps you improve when you try again

• students have been taught to avoid mistakes rather than accept them

• making mistakes shows that your someone who's not afraid to take risks

• people with fixed mindset don't learn from their mistakes because they don't make them often

Which detail from the text best supports the central idea that "accepting & learning from your mistakes helps your improve when you try again"?

• Mistakes get a bad rap. People often brush them aside by saying, "I'll do better next time." (paragraph 1)

• "Children with growth mindsets were also better at bouncing back after their mistakes. They were more likely to get the next trial right." (paragraph 8)

• It is when most kids are beginning school. How well they do in school can be related to their mindset about learning and intelligence." (paragraph 3)

Which statement describes the author's main purpose in the text?

• to encourage reader's to make as many mistakes as they can

• to show how adults hurt students' intelligence by discouraging mistakes

• to provide evidence for how mistakes can help you learn

• to help readers determine if they have a growth mindset or a fixed mindset

Which statement describes the relationship between fixed mindset and growth mindset?

• Fixed mindset and growth mindset describes how our brains solve challenging problems.

• Fixed mindset and growth mindset shows how a person views their own intelligence.

• Fixed mindset shows that someone has learned as much as they can while growth mindset shows they have more to learn.

• Fixed mindset is the reluctance to learn anymore while growth mindset is a person's desire to improve themselves.

What is the text structure of paragraph 8?

• problem and solution

• spatial

• cause and effect

• compare and contrast

Reread this sentence from the text:

Small regions of the brain responded in the children who had a fixed mindset.

Which word would best replace regions in the sentence above?

• sections

• districts

• quarters

• slopes

Reread these sentences from the text:

People can ignore a mistake by simply pretending it never happened. Or they can mull it over.

If the word "mull" was changed to "think," how would the new connotation change the meaning of the sentence?

• It would make the sentence stronger.

• It would make the sentence weaker.

• It would not change the statement at all.

• It would mean the opposite of "mull"