Changing U.S. Students’ Mindsets about Learning Improves Academic Achievement

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dc.creatorYeager, David S.
dc.creatorHanselman, Paul
dc.creatorCrosnoe, Robert
dc.creatorMuller, Chandra
dc.date.accessioned2019-09-05T21:35:51Z
dc.date.available2019-09-05T21:35:51Z
dc.date.issued2019
dc.descriptionIn the United States, many students’ grades drop in the transition between 8th and 9th grades and often never recover. One promising intervention to help students successfully navigate the transition to high school involves encouraging students to see their intellectual abilities as something that can grow (like a muscle), rather than as something fixed (like eye color). In this research brief, PRC faculty research associates David Yeager, Robert Crosnoe and Chandra Muller, along with colleagues in the Mindset Scholars Network, report on the first longitudinal study to evaluate the effects of a short growth mindset curriculum in a nationally-representative sample of U.S. public high schools. They demonstrate that 9th grade students who took the growth mindset curriculum earned higher GPAs and took more challenging courses, particularly in schools that are more supportive of a growth mindset philosophy.
dc.description.departmentPopulation Research Centeren_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/2152/75735
dc.identifier.urihttp://dx.doi.org/10.26153/tsw/2837
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.publisherUniversity of Texas at Austin Population Research Centeren_US
dc.relation.ispartofPRC Research & Policy Brief Seriesen_US
dc.relation.ispartofseriesPRC Research & Policy Brief;4(7)
dc.rights.restrictionOpenen_US
dc.subjectacademic achievementen_US
dc.subjectgrowth mindset of intelligenceen_US
dc.titleChanging U.S. Students’ Mindsets about Learning Improves Academic Achievementen_US
dc.typeOtheren_US

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