Carol Dweck’s Growth vs. Fixed Mindset Assessment - Check Your Mindset Profile

Oct 16, 2026

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Assessment sheet for identifying whether respondents hold a fixed or growth mindset. Participants rate 20 statements by degree of agreement, covering beliefs about intelligence and personal qualities, learning capacity, effort and improvement, reactions to feedback, and attitudes toward stress and trying new things. Scoring maps mindset categories—strong growth, growth with some fixed ideas, fixed with some growth ideas, and strong fixed—based on total points between 0 and 60.

LanguageEnglish

CategoryExam

FormatPDF

Pages2

Reading Time5 min

AccessFree to download

Assessment Instructions

Statement Ratings (1-20)

Scoring Guide

Total Points and Mindset Categories

Carol Dweck’s Growth vs. Fixed Mindset Assessment Place a check in the column that identifies the extent to which you agree or disagree with each statement. | | Strongly
Agree | Agree | Disagree | Strongly
Disagree | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1. Your intelligence is something very basic about you that you can’t change very much. | | | | | | 2. No matter how much intelligence you have, you can always change it quite a bit. | | | | | | 3. You can always substantially change how intelligent you are. | | | | | | 4. You are a certain kind of person, and there is not much that can be done to really change that. | | | | | | 5. You can always change basic things about the kind of person you are. | | | | | | 6. Music talent can be learned by anyone. | | | | | | 7. Only a few people will be truly good at sports – you have to be “born with it.” | | | | | | 8. Math is much easier to learn if you are male or maybecome from a culture that values math. | | | | | | 9. The harder you work at something, the better you will beat it. | | | | | | 10. No matter what kind of person you are, you can always change substantially. | | | | | | 11. Trying new things is stressful for me and I avoid it. | | | | | | 12. Some people are good and kind, some are not – it is not often that people change. | | | | | | 13. I appreciate when parents, coaches, teachers give me feedback about my performance. | | | | | | 14. I often get angry when I get feedback about my performance. | | | | | | 15. All human beings without a brain injury or birth defect are capable of the same amount of learning. | | | | | | 16. You can learn new things, but you can’t really change how intelligent you are. | | | | | | 17. You can do things differently, but the important part of who you are can’t really be changed. | | | | | | 18. Human beings are basically good, but sometimes make terrible decisions. | | | | | | 19. An important reason why I do my schoolwork is that I like to learn new things. | | | | | | 20. Truly smart people don’t need to try hard. | | | | | Circle the number in the box that matches each answer. | | Strongly
Agree | Agree | Disagree | Strongly
Disagree | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1. Ability mindset – FIXED | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | | 2. Ability mindset – GROWTH | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | | 3. Ability mindset – GROWTH | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | | 4. Personality/character mindset – FIXED | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | | 5. Personality/character mindset – GROWTH | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | | 6. Ability mindset – GROWTH | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | | 7. Ability mindset – FIXED | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | | 8. Ability mindset – FIXED | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | | 9. Ability mindset – GROWTH | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | | 10. Personality/character mindset – GROWTH | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | | 11. Ability mindset – FIXED | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | | 12. Personality/character mindset – FIXED | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | | 13. Ability mindset – GROWTH | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | | 14. Ability mindset – FIXED | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | | 15. Ability mindset – GROWTH | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | | 16. Ability mindset – FIXED | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | | 17. Personality/character mindset – FIXED | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | | 18. Personality/character mindset – GROWTH | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | | 19. Ability mindset – GROWTH | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | | 20. Personality/character mindset – FIXED | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | | Total | | | | | | Grand Total | | | | | Strong Growth Mindset = 45 – 60 pts. Growth Mindset with some Fixed ideas = 34 – 44 pts. Fixed Mindset with some Growth ideas = 21 – 33 pts. Strong Fixed Mindset = 0 – 20 pts.

FAQs

How should I answer the 20 statements in this assessment?

Check the column that matches how much you agree or disagree with each statement, from strongly agree to strongly disagree.

What do the score ranges correspond to?

Strong Growth Mindset is 45–60 points; Growth Mindset with some Fixed ideas is 34–44; Fixed Mindset with some Growth ideas is 21–33; Strong Fixed Mindset is 0–20.

How is the total score used to identify a mindset type?

After circling the response number for each item, sum the points and match the total to the corresponding mindset category based on the provided ranges.

Oct 16, 2026

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