Team Growth Mindset

Our lab aims to explore the emergence of a team growth mindset that can enhance team performance and learning. Please see our example work:

Exploring the emergence of a team growth mindset in winning design teams

A pilot study: In this study, we explored the emergence of team growth mindsets as an influence on performance by analyzing focus group interview transcripts of four winning student design teams. Reflecting on our findings, we introduced and defined the team growth mindset as: the belief shared by team members that they can develop each other’s capacity to learn from failures, challenges, and successes.

Han, S. J., Garr, A., Kogut, A., Norton, M., Beyerlein, M., Xie, L., & Boehm, R. (2019, accepted). Exploring the emergence of a team growth mindset in winning design teams: A pilot study. Proceedings of the 2019 Academy of Human Resource Development International Research Conference in the Americas. Louisville, Kentucky, USA.

Exploring growth and fixed mindsets in work teams at one of the Korean big corporations

We conducted a qualitative study to understand how growth and fixed mindsets can be manifested in work teams from seven different departments in one of the big corporations in Korea

Han, S. J., Oh, J., & Jin, B. (2019). Exploring growth and fixed mindsets in work teams at one of the Korean big corporations. The 50th Annual Adult Education Research Conference (AERC). Buffalo State College, NY, USA. June 6-9, 2019.

Growth mindset in adult learning: Systematic literature review

This paper conducted a systematic literature review on mindsets to understand how a growth mindset is conceptualized and investigated in adult learning scholarly work.

Han, S. J., Stieha, V., Poitevin, E., & Starnes, T. L. (2018). Growth mindset in adult learning: Systematic literature review. The 49th Annual Adult Education Research Conference (AERC). University of Victoria, BC, Canada. June 8-10, 2018. http://newprairiepress.org/aerc/2018/papers/3

The STEM project team as a student-developed learning environment and its urgency

This paper builds a case for educators to deliberately work at developing STEM competencies at the team level throughout all levels of the education system. Teamwork leverages the knowledge and skill of team members for innovating to solve complex problems.

Beyerlein, M., & Han, S. J. (2017). The STEM project team as a student developed learning environment and its urgency: The urgent need for teamwork capability in the 21st century economy. In N. A. Alias & J. E. Luaran (Eds.), Student-driven learning strategies for the 21st century classroom (pp. 44-60). Hershey, PA: IGI Global. DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-1689-7.ch004