A systematic review and meta-analysis of growth mindset interventions: For whom, how, and why might such interventions work?
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For the students expected to benefit most, and when the intervention was delivered faithfully, growth mindset interventions had a small positive effect on achievement and a larger one on mental health. The authors stress how much effects vary: future interventions could plausibly have effects from slightly negative to moderate.
Effect size, as the source reports it: d = 0.14 on academic achievement for targeted groups with high-fidelity delivery.
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- Meta-analysis
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- 53 independent samples from randomized studies, 2002–2020
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