Friday, August 16, 2019

Growth Mindset Study

Yet giving students even a brief opportunity to understand and reflect on their mindsets for learning can make them likelier to challenge themselves and improve, according to a new national study.
A short (less than one hour), online growth mindset intervention—which teaches that intellectual abilities can be developed—improved grades among lower-achieving students and increased overall enrollment to advanced mathematics courses in a nationally representative sample of students in secondary education in the United States. Notably, the study identified school contexts that sustained the effects of the growth mindset intervention: the intervention changed grades when peer norms aligned with the messages of the intervention.
Yeager, D. et al. (2019). A national experiment reveals where a growth mindset improves achievement.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-019-1466-y

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