Teacher Mindsets Help Explain Where a Growth-Mindset Intervention Does and Doesn't Work.

ABSTRACT: A growth-mindset intervention teaches the belief that intellectual abilities can be developed. Where does the intervention work best? Prior research examined school-level moderators using data from the National Study of Learning Mindsets (NSLM), which delivered a short growth-mindset intervention during the first year of high school. In the present research, we used data from the NSLM to examine moderation by teachers' mindsets and answer a new question: Can students independently implement their growth mindsets in virtually any classroom culture, or must students' growth mindsets be supported by their teacher's own growth mindsets (i.e., the mindset-plus-supportive-context hypothesis)? The present analysis (9,167 student records matched with 223 math teachers) supported the latter

SUBMITTER: Yeager DS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8985222 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature