Learning Mindset Climate Survey

Assessing the Psychological Air of Student Environment

Motivate Lab is happy to collaborate with you to leverage our team of expert data analysts to review your data,  create reports and slides, and engage you with a live data download session to elaborate on insights from the data.

THE CHALLENGE

Students’ postsecondary pathway, whether to the workforce, technical training and certificate programs, 2-year or 4-year colleges and universities, or the military, is shaped by far more than academic preparation alone. Every person, practice, process, program, and policy students encounter in their learning environment sends important signals about their beliefs and perceptions about learning, called learning mindsets, and influences the learning environment’s “psychological air”. 

Without systematic feedback on this "psychological air," programs rely on assumptions instead of evidence, obscuring both their successes and the key opportunities for essential improvement.

THE SOLUTION

The Learning Mindset Climate Survey (LMCS) is a tool for schools and postsecondary advising programs to gather input on how effectively they support students' learning mindsets in pursuit of their postsecondary and career goals. This tool provides a snapshot of learning mindset-supportive practices in action.

The LMCS aims to solicit input from multiple perspectives, including students, staff, and important program stakeholders. By implementing the Learning Mindset Climate Survey, organizations can:

• Assess the psychological air learners experience, rather than relying on assumptions or anecdotes.

• Identify where current structures reinforce or undermine desired learning mindsets.

• Access concrete indicators of Growth Mindset, Purpose & Relevance, and Sense of Belonging that guide reflection and action.

GUIDEBOOK OVERVIEW

Whether you are engaging with the Learning Mindset Climate Survey through our Guidebook or partnering with Motivate Lab for support, we break the implementation process down into four phases that will support you in successfully administering the LMCS, making sense of the data you collect, and sharing your findings with your team and stakeholders. 

Phase 1: Plan

You will prepare to administer the Motivational Climate Survey. We discuss how to identify your team and assign roles, prepare your team for implementation, consider potential dates and survey takers, and create your survey. Identifying these logistics and preparing materials can take about a month and should be completed prior to implementing the survey. 

Phase 2: Implement

In addition to implementing the survey, we discuss key actions you can take to increase your chances of obtaining the number of surveys you intend. We also identify meetings you may want to schedule that will support you in analyzing your data and sharing your findings. 

Phase 3: Analyze

In this phase, our team will provide best practices that will support you in analyzing qualitative and quantitative data. 

Phase 4: Report

The final step of any data-led initiative is to create a useful and impactful shareout to key stakeholders within your organization. In this section, we discuss how best to set up a report and presentation with an action-oriented and systems-level approach.