CBE—Life Sciences EducationVol. 23, No. 2 ArticlesFree AccessGrowth Mindset Messages from Instructors Improve Academic Performance Among First-Generation College StudentsElizabeth A. Canning, Makita White, and William B. DavisElizabeth A. Canning*Address correspondence to: Elizabeth A. Canning (E-mail Address: [email protected]).Department of Psychology, Washington State University, Pullman, WA 99163Search for more papers by this author, Makita WhiteDepartment of Psychology, Washington State University, Pullman, WA 99163Search for more papers by this author, and William B. DavisSchool of Molecular Biosciences, Washington State University, Pullman, WA 99163Search for more papers by this authorSehoya Cotner, Monitoring EditorPublished Online:12 Mar 2024https://doi.org/10.1187/cbe.23-07-0131AboutSectionsView articleView Full TextSupplemental MaterialView PDF ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack Citations ShareShare onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditEmail View articleSupplemental Materialcombinedsupmats.pdf (318 KB)FiguresReferencesRelatedDetails Vol. 23, No. 2 June 01, 2024 Supplemental MaterialsMetrics Downloads & Citations Downloads: 1888 History Submitted: 10 July 2023 Revised: 12 February 2024 Accepted: 21 February 2024 Information© 2024 E. A. Canning et al. CBE—Life Sciences Education © 2024 The American Society for Cell Biology. This article is distributed by The American Society for Cell Biology under license from the author(s). It is available to the public under an Attribution–Noncommercial–Share Alike 3.0 Unported Creative Commons License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0).This work was supported by the US National Science Foundation (award number: 2141988).PDF download