The Evidence on Feeling Good: teacher key

Feeling Good About Yourself, grade 12 edition, written for 12th grade and up. Trials and surveys test what builds self-esteem: praise, mindset lessons, self-compassion, kindness and gratitude. Researchers still argue over how to measure some of it.

Read the book. Print this page for the key.

Questions and answers

1. Which setting made a growth mindset lesson more likely to take root?
   • A supportive school culture (answer)
   • A very short quiz
   • Working all alone
2. In the national study of ninth graders, how long was the growth mindset session?
   • 45 minutes online (answer)
   • A full year
   • Two weeks at home
3. What does the KidsHealth teen guide suggest doing with a harsh thought?
   • Ignore it
   • Rewrite it so it is true, fair and kind (answer)
   • Write it on a poster
4. What did kind acts raise in the Vancouver classrooms?
   • How much classmates accepted students (answer)
   • Hours of sleep
   • Test scores
5. In this passage, what does causal direction mean?
   • Which thing causes the other (answer)
   • How far a wave travels
   • How loud praise is

Words

• mindset: way of thinking
• narcissism: too much self-love
• longitudinal: over time
• resilience: bouncing back
• causal: cause-and-effect