Growth-Mindset Interventions at Scale: Experimental Evidence From Argentina
Upper secondary Motivation and curiosity
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| Claim | Basis |
|---|---|
| C13 | Null at scale in Argentina, including students who had repeated a grade; paper-based version. |
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Source note
Syntes: Growth-Mindset Interventions at Scale: Experimental Evidence From Argentina (2020)
Källa: https://doi.org/10.3102/0162373720938041 (Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis 42(3), 417–438)
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- [full text] 202 public secondary schools in Salta, Argentina randomised; grade-12 students read a text on the malleability of intelligence, wrote a letter to a classmate and posted it; done on paper, not online.
- [full text] Achievement two months later (national assessment): math ITT −0.020 / 0.015 SD, reading −0.051 / −0.008 SD (Table 9); effects above .07 SD ruled out; no heterogeneity by sex, socioeconomic status or prior grade repetition (Table A.11, per text).
- [full text] School-level passing, failing, repetition and dropout rates unchanged (Table 8).
Limits
- [assessment] Paper-based letter-writing version, not the online lesson C13 names; grade 12; no mention of preregistration; outcomes two months after.
Added 2026-10-16 by the project (week run 2026-10-16). [abstract] = from the published abstract; [full text] = read in the full text; [assessment] = the project's own assessment.
Metadata as recorded
- ID
- MOT-008
- Tier
- RCT (school-randomised)
- Titel
- Growth-Mindset Interventions at Scale: Experimental Evidence From Argentina
- Författare
- Ganimian, A. J.
- År
- 2020
- Källa/DOI
- https://doi.org/10.3102/0162373720938041 (Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis 42(3), 417–438)
- Åldersgrupp
- gymnasium
- Teman
- motivation-och-nyfikenhet
- Hämtad
- 2026-10-16
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