How can we inspire nations of learners? An investigation of growth mindset and challenge-seeking in two countries.

ABSTRACT: Here we evaluate the potential for growth mindset interventions (that teach students that intellectual abilities can be developed) to inspire adolescents to be "learners"-that is, to seek out challenging learning experiences. In a previous analysis, the U.S. National Study of Learning Mindsets (NSLM) showed that a growth mindset could improve the grades of lower-achieving adolescents, and, in an exploratory analysis, increase enrollment in advanced math courses across achievement levels. Yet, the importance of being a "learner" in today's global economy requires clarification and replication of potential challenge-seeking effects, as well as an investigation of the school affordances that make intervention effects on challenge-seeking possible. To this end, the present article prese

SUBMITTER: Rege M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8113339 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jul-Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature