The growth mindset intervention was estimated to prevent about 5.3% of US lower-achieving ninth-graders per year from being off track for graduation¶

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q4 i? The model estimated that 5.3% of 1.5 million US lower-achieving students per year would be prevented from earning a GPA below 2.0, a reduction from 46% to 41% (a relative risk reduction of 11% by the article's calculation). → Yeager 2019

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Yeager 2019¶

Yeager, D. S., Hanselman, P., Walton, G. M., Murray, J. S., Crosnoe, R., Muller, C., Tipton, E., Schneider, B., Hulleman, C. S., Hinojosa, C. P., Paunesku, D., Romero, C., Flint, K., Roberts, A., Trott, J., Iachan, R., Buontempo, J., Yang, S. M., Carvalho, C. M., Hahn, P. R., Gopalan, M., Mhatre, P., Ferguson, R., Duckworth, A. L. & Dweck, C. S. (2019). A national experiment reveals where a growth mindset improves achievement. Nature 573. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-019-1466-y

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Poor-performance rates (GPA below 2.0 on a four-point scale), a pre-registered secondary outcome from school administrative data, showed a "reduction from 46% to 41%", a relative risk reduction of 11% by the article's calculation; no standardized effect size is printed for this outcome, so no magnitude is coded.

"The model estimates that 5.3% (95% confidence interval = −1.7, −9.0), s.e. = 1.8, t = 2.95, P = 0.005 of 1.5 million students in the United States per year would be prevented from being 'off track' for graduation by the brief and low-cost growth mindset intervention, representing a reduction from 46% to 41%"

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Related Claims¶

• A short online growth mindset intervention improved ninth-grade core-course GPAs among lower-achieving students in a nationally representative US sample — related
• Ninth-grade on-track status predicts graduation more strongly than prior achievement, with a 55 percentage point gap after controls — related
• Growth-mindset interventions have weak average effects on achievement, including a negligible GPA gain (d = 0.11) for lower-achieving US ninth-graders in one preregistered national trial — related
• Brief online growth-mindset interventions produce modest academic gains concentrated among students at risk of underperformance — related