Do growth mindset interventions impact students' academic achievement? A systematic review and meta-analysis with recommendations for best practices.

BN Macnamara, AP Burgoyne - Psychological bulletin, 2023 - psycnet.apa.org
According to mindset theory, students who believe their personal characteristics can change—
that is, those who hold a growth mindset—will achieve more than students who believe their …

What can be learned from growth mindset controversies?

DS Yeager, CS Dweck - American psychologist, 2020 - psycnet.apa.org
The growth mindset is the belief that intellectual ability can be developed. This article seeks
to answer recent questions about growth mindset, such as: Does a growth mindset predict …

Persistence and disengagement in personal goal pursuit

V Brandstätter, K Bernecker - Annual Review of Psychology, 2022 - annualreviews.org
Persistence in and timely disengagement from personal goals are core components of
successful self-regulation and therefore relevant to well-being and performance. In the …

Teacher mindset is associated with development of students' growth mindset

RMD Mesler, CM Corbin, BH Martin - Journal of Applied Developmental …, 2021 - Elsevier
Are teachers' growth mindsets associated with the development of growth mindsets in their
students? We know that teacher growth mindset (TGM) shapes the attributions teachers …

How firm are the foundations of mind-set theory? The claims appear stronger than the evidence

AP Burgoyne, DZ Hambrick… - Psychological …, 2020 - journals.sagepub.com
Mind-set refers to people's beliefs about whether attributes are malleable (growth mind-set)
or unchangeable (fixed mind-set). Proponents of mind-set theory have made bold claims …

Achievement motivation: What we know and where we are going

A Wigfield, K Muenks, JS Eccles - Annual Review of …, 2021 - annualreviews.org
We review work on the development of children's and adolescents' achievement motivation,
focusing on recent advances in the empirical work in the field and commenting on the status …

Growth mindset predicts achievement only among rich students: Examining the interplay between mindset and socioeconomic status

RB King, JE Trinidad - Social Psychology of Education, 2021 - Springer
There is a heated debate about the efficacy of growth mindsets in predicting achievement
and other key learning-related outcomes with some studies supporting and others failing to …

Buffering academic stress during the COVID-19 pandemic related social isolation: Grit and growth mindset as protective factors against the impact of loneliness

M Mosanya - International journal of applied positive psychology, 2021 - Springer
The pandemic of the SARS CoV-2 virus, which causes COVID-19 sickness, constitutes a
global challenge to well-being. Positive psychology constructs of grit and growth mindset …

A growth mindset lowers perceived cognitive load and improves learning: Integrating motivation to cognitive load.

KM Xu, P Koorn, B De Koning, IT Skuballa… - Journal of …, 2021 - psycnet.apa.org
Many large-scale, school-based interventions have attempted to improve academic
performance through promoting students' growth mindset, defined as the belief that one's …

Cognitive ability, cognitive self-awareness, and school performance: From childhood to adolescence

A Demetriou, S Kazi, N Makris, G Spanoudis - Intelligence, 2020 - Elsevier
This study explored relations between academic performance, cognition, cognitive self-
evaluation and self-representation. We examined 408 participants, from 10 to 16 years, by a …