The Role of Growth Mindset on Statistical Learning Outcome with the Regression Approach

Abstract

This research is to find out how the role of student mindset has on the learning outcomes of Statistics courses, which so far are considered difficult, scary, and less desirable by most students. Someone who has a growth mindset will believe that their talents can always be developed. This research was conducted on 176 students of the Faculty of Engineering, Universitas Negeri Jakarta. By using the correlation test, it is known that there is a 37.3 percent correlation strength between the growth mindset of students and their statistics learning outcomes. The regression equation shows that every increase of one Growth mindset value, will increase 0.39 the value of student Statistics learning outcomes. The results of this analysis are significant at an alpha of 0.05. These results recommend that it is necessary to provide a stimulus that can develop a growth mindset in students to improve critical thinking skills, analysis, and optimism in solving challenges, especially in statistics courses.