An online growth mindset intervention in a sample of rural adolescent girls.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Students living in rural areas of the United States exhibit lower levels of educational attainment than their suburban counterparts. Innovative interventions are needed to close this educational achievement gap.

Aims

We investigated whether an online growth mindset intervention could be leveraged to promote academic outcomes.

Sample

We tested the mindset intervention in a sample of 222 10th-grade adolescent girls (M age = 15.2; 38% White, 25% Black, 29% Hispanic) from four rural, low-income high schools in the Southeastern United States.

Methods

We conducted a randomized controlled trial to test the efficacy of the growth mindset intervention, relative to a sexual health programme. We used random sampling and allocation procedures to assign girls to

SUBMITTER: Burnette JL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5871528 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature