Yeager, Romero et al., 2016: Learning about the malleability of intelligence increased academic performance among at-risk 9th grade students
Reference:
Yeager, D. S., Romero, C., Paunesku, D., Hulleman, C. S., Schneider, B., Hinojosa, C., ... & Trott, J. (2016). Using design thinking to improve psychological interventions: The case of the growth mindset during the transition to high school. Journal of educational psychology, 108(3), 374.
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9th grade students in 10 high schools completed an online growth-mindset intervention module based on that in Paunesku et al., 2015 but revised following a design process. Focusing on students with low levels of prior achievement, students who completed the growth-mindset module, as compared to those who completed a control module, earned higher core academic GPA in the first semester of 9th grade and reduced the percentage who received D or F GPAs by four percentage points.
Psychological Process:
What Desired Meaning is At Stake?
What is the Person Trying to Understand?
Selves (My Own and Others')Approach to Desired Meaning
What about it?
Promoting growth-mindsets: Representing psychological qualities as capable of changeHow?
Psychological Question Addressed
Is intelligence fixed or can it growIs intelligence fixed or can it growPsychological Question Addressed
Is intelligence fixed or can it growPsychological Process 2:
Psychological Process 3:
Social Area:
Education
Intervention Technique:
Increasing commitment through action, saying-is-believing