Mindsets, contexts, and college enrollment: Taking the long view on growth mindset beliefs at the transition to high school.

ABSTRACT: Socioeconomic disparities in academic progress have persisted throughout the history of the United States, and growth mindset interventions-which shift beliefs about the malleability of intelligence-have shown promise in reducing these disparities. Both the study of such disparities and how to remedy them can benefit from taking the "long view" on adolescent development, following the tradition of John Schulenberg. To do so, this study focuses on the role of growth mindsets in short-term academic progress during the transition to high school as a contributor to longer-term educational attainment. Guided by the Mindset × Context perspective, we analyzed new follow-up data to a one-year nationally representative study of ninth graders (National Study of Learning Mindsets, n = 10,013; 50% fem

SUBMITTER: Hecht CA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11606800 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature