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A values-aligned intervention fosters growth mindset-supportive teaching and reduces inequality in educational outcomes.
Hecht, Cameron A; Bryan, Christopher J; Yeager, David S.
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  • Hecht CA; Department of Psychology and Population Research Center, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX 78712.
  • Bryan CJ; Department of Business, Government, and Society, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX 78712.
  • Yeager DS; Department of Psychology and Population Research Center, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX 78712.
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A ; 120(25): e2210704120, 2023 06 20.
Article en En | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-37307478
Group-based educational disparities are smaller in classrooms where teachers express a belief that students can improve their abilities. However, a scalable method for motivating teachers to adopt such growth mindset-supportive teaching practices has remained elusive. In part, this is because teachers often already face overwhelming demands on their time and attention and have reason to be skeptical of the professional development advice they receive from researchers and other experts. We designed an intervention that overcame these obstacles and successfully motivated high-school teachers to adopt specific practices that support students' growth mindsets. The intervention used the values-alignment approach. This approach motivates behavioral change by framing a desired behavior as aligned with a core value-one that is an important criterion for status and admiration in the relevant social reference group. First, using qualitative interviews and a nationally representative survey of teachers, we identified a relevant core value: inspiring students' enthusiastic engagement with learning. Next, we designed a ~45-min, self-administered, online intervention that persuaded teachers to view growth mindset-supportive practices as a way to foster such student engagement and thus live up to that value. We randomly assigned 155 teachers (5,393 students) to receive the intervention and 164 teachers (6,167 students) to receive a control module. The growth mindset-supportive teaching intervention successfully promoted teachers' adoption of the suggested practices, overcoming major barriers to changing teachers' classroom practices that other scalable approaches have failed to surmount. The intervention also substantially improved student achievement in socioeconomically disadvantaged classes, reducing inequality in educational outcomes.
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Texto completo: 1 Colección: 01-internacional Banco de datos: MEDLINE Asunto principal: Éxito Académico / Intervención basada en la Internet Tipo de estudio: Prognostic_studies / Qualitative_research Límite: Humans Idioma: En Revista: Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A Año: 2023 Tipo del documento: Article

Texto completo: 1 Colección: 01-internacional Banco de datos: MEDLINE Asunto principal: Éxito Académico / Intervención basada en la Internet Tipo de estudio: Prognostic_studies / Qualitative_research Límite: Humans Idioma: En Revista: Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A Año: 2023 Tipo del documento: Article