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A national experiment reveals where a growth mindset improves achievement.

ABSTRACT: A global priority for the behavioural sciences is to develop cost-effective, scalable interventions that could improve the academic outcomes of adolescents at a population level, but no such interventions have so far been evaluated in a population-generalizable sample. Here we show that 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 enrolment 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. Confidence in the conclusions of this study comes from independent data collection and processing, pre-registration of analyses, and corroboration of results by a blinded Bayesian analysis.

SUBMITTER: Yeager DS

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6786290 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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A national experiment reveals where a growth mindset improves achievement.

Yeager David S DS Hanselman Paul P Walton Gregory M GM Murray Jared S JS Crosnoe Robert R Muller Chandra C Tipton Elizabeth E Schneider Barbara B Hulleman Chris S CS Hinojosa Cintia P CP Paunesku David D Romero Carissa C Flint Kate K Roberts Alice A Trott Jill J Iachan Ronaldo R Buontempo Jenny J Yang Sophia Man SM Carvalho Carlos M CM Hahn P Richard PR Gopalan Maithreyi M Mhatre Pratik P Ferguson Ronald R Duckworth Angela L AL Dweck Carol S CS

Nature 20190807 7774

A global priority for the behavioural sciences is to develop cost-effective, scalable interventions that could improve the academic outcomes of adolescents at a population level, but no such interventions have so far been evaluated in a population-generalizable sample. Here we show that 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 enrolment to advanc ...[more]

PMID: 31391586

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