Changing Mindsets: Evaluation Report and Executive Summary
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What it found
Pupils who attended growth mindset workshops made about two months' more progress in English and math, but the difference wasn't statistically significant. Pupils whose teachers took a growth mindset course made no extra progress in math. Both control and intervention schools already used parts of the approach.
What kind of study it is
- Design
- Randomized trial in schools
- Weight
- A trial in schools: it compares groups that got the practice with groups that didn't.
- Sample
- Year 5 pupils in Portsmouth, Southampton and Hampshire, England, January to May 2013
- Who
- School-age children (K–12)
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Rienzo, C., Rolfe, H., & Wilkinson, D. (2015). Changing Mindsets: Evaluation report and executive summary. Education Endowment Foundation. https://eric.ed.gov/?id=ED581132
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