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Growth mindset interventions yield impressive results

  • Written by Carol Dweck, Professor of Psychology, Stanford University
Growth mindset interventions are becoming increasingly popular in schools.Lightspring/www.shutterstock.com

A growth mindset is the belief that intellectual abilities are not fixed, but can be developed. Do students who are taught a growth mindset earn higher grades and test scores?

Brooke Macnamara and her colleagues, who conducted a meta-analysis...

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