A national experiment reveals where a growth mindset improves achievement

Nature - Tập 573 Số 7774 - Trang 364-369 - 2019
David S. Yeager1, Paul Hanselman2, Gregory M. Walton3, Jared S. Murray1, Robert Crosnoe1, Chandra Muller1, Elizabeth Tipton4, Barbara Schneider5, Chris S. Hulleman6, Cintia Hinojosa7, David Paunesku8, Carissa Romero9, Kate Flint10, Alice M. Roberts10, Jill Trott10, Ronaldo Iachan10, Jenny Buontempo1, Sophia Yang Hooper1, Carlos M. Carvalho1, P. Richard Hahn11, Maithreyi Gopalan12, Pratik Mhatre1, Ronald F. Ferguson13, Angela Duckworth14, Carol S. Dweck3
1University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, USA
2University of California, Irvine, Irvine, CA, USA.
3Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA
4Northwestern University, Evanston, IL/USA
5Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI USA
6UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA, Charlottesville, VA USA
7University of Chicago, Chicago, IL USA
8Project for Education Research that Scales, San Francisco, CA, USA
9Paradigm Strategy Inc., San Francisco, CA, USA
10ICF, Fairfax, VA, USA
11Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ USA
12The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA USA
13Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA
14University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA

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