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Deliver intelligence-theory interventions as curriculum-embedded sessions during the transition to university

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Description

The article recommends delivering short interventions promoting an incremental view of intelligence to first-year students as part of normal first-year class activities, because transition is a time when students are unclear what success requires. The intervention "formed part of the usual classes and drew on psychological research to make it appear to be a 'normal' seminar activity", and the article cites What Works? (2012) that curriculum embedding enhances efficacy.

Design Implications

Context

Requirements

  • A one-hour presentation and activity that can be delivered within existing first-year seminar sessions

Constraints

  • A one-hour intervention is unlikely to change perceptions and behaviours across an entire academic year without repetition or top-up

Target Learners

  • first-year university students

Learning Goals

  • adaptive beliefs about intelligence
  • learning goal orientation
  • positive learning behaviours during transition

Claims

Examples

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Key Sources

  • Skipper, Y. (2015). An evaluation of an intervention to change first-year psychology students' theory of intelligence. Psychology Teaching Review, 21(2). https://eric.ed.gov/?id=EJ1080279
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title Deliver intelligence-theory interventions as curriculum-embedded sessions during the transition to university
description The article recommends delivering short interventions promoting an incremental view of intelligence to first-year students as part of normal first-year class activities, because transition is a time when students are...
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generated by process:settle-candidates on 2026-11-03
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