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Online self-administered strategic mindset intervention for secondary school students

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Description

A scalable, cost-effective online exercise (~40 minutes) that adolescents can self-administer in classrooms. It involves "learning about the common challenges that Secondary school students often face; hearing other students'testimonials about how they had used the strategic mindset psychology to overcome these challenges, to make progress, and to learn better"; reading scientific evidence; identifying personal strategy-eliciting questions; and committing to more effective learning approaches. Crucially, it does not train specific strategies but teaches the value of self-prompting.

Design Implications

Context

Requirements

  • Delivery in a classroom environment with sufficient peer engagement and minimal disruption for fidelity
  • Students need some existing repertoire of learning strategies to benefit maximally

Constraints

  • Did not include training in specific learning strategies; conveyed via slides rather than videos due to technical limitations in some schools

Target Learners

  • Secondary school students (ages 13–17) in public school classrooms

Learning Goals

  • Increasing use of effective learning strategies when studying for exams and improving exam performance

Claims

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Key Sources

  • Chen, P., Teo, Q.K., Foo, D.X.Y., Jiang, Y., Sun, L., Ong, X.L., Neo, D., Pereira, D.J.H., Tan, B., Chua, K.Q., Gan, J.X.F. & Ong, D.C. (2025). A strategic mindset predicts and promotes effective learning and academic performance. npj Science of Learning, 10:74. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41539-025-00367-6
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id strategic-mindset-online-intervention-secondary
title Online self-administered strategic mindset intervention for secondary school students
description A scalable, cost-effective online exercise (~40 minutes) that adolescents can self-administer in classrooms.
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