To What Extent and Under Which Circumstances Are Growth Mind-Sets Important to Academic Achievement? Two Meta-Analyses
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What it found
The link between students' mindsets and their achievement, and the effect of mindset interventions on achievement, were both weak overall. Some results suggested that students from low-income families or who are academically at risk might benefit from the interventions.
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- Meta-analysis
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- A synthesis: it pools or weighs many studies, so it carries the most weight on the evidence meter.
- Sample
- 273 effects (365,915 students) on mindset and achievement; 43 effects (57,155 students) on mindset interventions
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doi.org/10.1177/0956797617739704
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Sisk, V. F., Burgoyne, A. P., Sun, J., Butler, J. L., & Macnamara, B. N. (2018). To what extent and under which circumstances are growth mind-sets important to academic achievement? Two meta-analyses. Psychological Science, 29(4), 549–571. https://doi.org/10.1177/0956797617739704
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