The Math Mind Measures: A User Guide
The development of the Math Mind Measures survey originated from a research-practitioner partnership (RPP) project funded by The Gates Foundation (namely the R+D Partnership for Math Equity). As a part of the project, our team wanted to understand what contributes to math motivation in students. Unfortunately, when looking for instruments to assess motivation we could find little consensus on which motivational factor(s) mattered most and how to measure them. The scales, in their various forms, are presented in this user guide. Spanish versions of the new brief and parallel versions are available in the Appendices (prior Spanish versions of the scales are available on the Open Science Framework site). Future iterations will hopefully also include state measures of math mind measures that allow for the measurement of how a student feels or thinks in the moment. MM Measures currently focus on what a student typically feels or thinks about themselves with regard to math, and is thus considered a “trait” (ex: “I get sad when I think about learning math”) instead of a “state” measure (ex: “I am sad that I am learning math right now”).