Can growth mindset interventions improve academic achievement? A structured review of the existing evidence

Which beliefs it touches

• C13 Growth mindset for struggling students sets a limit on it

  Quality-graded review of school RCTs: the most trustworthy trials show whole-sample effects of d = −0.01 to 0.065 (Peru, Norway, rural China, England, Argentina). Studies reporting only lower-achiever or at-risk subgroups (Yeager et al. 2019, Paunesku et al. 2015) were excluded, so it does not test C13's lower-achiever clause; consistent with 'does little on average'. Full text read.