Deliver growth mindset messages once, near the start of college or around first exams, in roughly 30-minute sessions¶

Strategy · All strategies
Evidence · no claims cited

Description¶

An implementable delivery recipe drawn from the six studies meeting WWC standards: "Growth Mindset interventions in postsecondary settings typically occur once, either at the start of a student's first year of college enrollment or around the time that students complete their first or midterm course exams, and are administered in one or more sessions, each lasting about 30 minutes." Delivery is individual or in groups, via online modules or classroom settings. Comparison groups received alternative non-growth-mindset information with a parallel application prompt.

Design Implications¶

Context¶

Requirements¶

• College personnel to oversee preparation and delivery of materials; an existing classroom, laboratory, campus facility, or online delivery

Constraints¶

• The report's cost list is explicitly preliminary and not exhaustive, based on information available as of November 2020

Target Learners¶

• Incoming or first-semester postsecondary students

Target Learning Goals¶

• Growth mindset adoption, academic achievement, and persistence

Related Strategies¶

• Use active comparison conditions with parallel application prompts when evaluating growth mindset interventions
• Growth Mindset Interventions

Examples¶

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Key Sources¶

• Growth Mindset Interventions. (2022). What Works Clearinghouse Intervention Report, NCEE 2022-006. https://whatworks.ed.gov