This article examines the mindset of incoming college students, with particular focus on their beliefs about their intelligence, need for cognition, and goal orientation in both the academic and social domains. Students' beliefs about themselves and their abilities shape their first-semester college experience. Based on these results, we do not recommend that researchers and educators use the Mindset Assessment Profile to measure mindset. Exploratory factor analysis indicated that three factors were underlying scores on the Mindset Assessment Profile. Furthermore, two of the eight items did not correlate significantly with mindset (rs of -.01). Item-level analyses supported this finding, revealing that six of the eight items in the Mindset Assessment Profile correlated more strongly with need for cognition and learning goal orientation than with mindset. Overall scores on the Mindset Assessment Profile correlated more strongly with need for cognition than with mindset. The Mindset Assessment Profile also lacked convergent and discriminant construct validity. 63) was considerably lower than that of the Implicit Theories of Intelligence Questionnaire (α =. The reliability of the Mindset Assessment Profile (α =. We assessed the reliability, construct validity, and factor structure of the Mindset Assessment Profile in a sample of 992 undergraduates.
The Mindset Assessment Profile Tool is an 8-item questionnaire developed by the company Mindset Works, Inc.
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