The Power of Believing You Can Get Smarter

• Tác giả: Ingo Outes-Leon
• Ngôn ngữ: eng
• Ký hiệu phân loại: 150 Psychology
• Thông tin xuất bản: World Bank, Washington, DC, 2020
• Bộ sưu tập: Tài liệu truy cập mở
• ID: 307927
• Chủ đề: 1. ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT; 2. DISADVANTAGED STUDENT; 3. EDUCATION; 4. GROWTH MINDSET; 5. STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT

Tóm tắt

This paper evaluates the academic impact of a growth-mindset intervention on students starting the secondary level in public schools in urban Peru. ¡Expande tu Mente! is a 90-minute school session aimed at instilling the notion that a person's own intelligence is malleable. Students in schools randomly assigned to treatment showed a small improvement in math test scores and educational expectations, with a large and sustained impact in test scores among students outside the capital city. At a cost of .20 per pupil, ¡Expande tu Mente! was highly cost-effective. The results show the potential that brief growth-mindset interventions have for developing countries.