A national experiment reveals where a growth mindset improves achievement
Lower secondary (grades 7–9) Upper secondary Motivation and curiosity
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| Claim | Basis |
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| C13 | Preregistered national US trial: under one hour online lesson improved grades of lower-achieving students, effect depended on school peer norms. |
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Syntes: A national experiment reveals where a growth mindset improves achievement (2019)
Källa: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-019-1466-y (Nature 573)
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- Preregistered randomised trial in a nationally representative sample of US secondary-school students (National Study of Learning Mindsets).
- A short (under one hour), online, self-administered growth-mindset intervention improved grades among lower-achieving students and increased enrolment in advanced mathematics courses (abstract).
- Effects depended on school context: grades changed where peer norms aligned with the message.
- Independent data collection, preregistered analyses and a blinded Bayesian analysis.
Limits
- Effect concentrated in lower-achieving students; context-dependent.
Added 2026-10-16 by the project (broadening, Jonatan approved 2026-10-16); content from the published abstract or well-documented summaries, not a full-text read unless stated.
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- ID
- MOT-001
- Tier
- RCT
- Titel
- A national experiment reveals where a growth mindset improves achievement
- År
- 2019
- Källa/DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-019-1466-y
- Tidskrift
- Nature 573
- Typ
- peer-reviewed article
- Åldersgrupp
- grundskola-hog;gymnasium
- Teman
- motivation-och-nyfikenhet
- Hämtad
- 2026-10-16
- Verifierad
- Crossref metadata (title, authors, year, venue) checked 2026-10-16
- Full text (fetched 2026-10-16, legal open-access copy, private)
- fulltext.pdf + — via unpaywall: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-019-1466-y.pdf
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