The Power of Believing You Can Get Smarter
This paper evaluates the academic impact of a growth-mindset intervention on students starting the secondary level in public schools in urban Peru. ¡Expande tu Mente! is a 90-minute school session aimed at instilling the notion that a person's own intelligence is malleable. Students in schools randomly assigned to treatment showed a small improvement in math test scores and educational expectations, with a large and sustained impact in test scores among students outside the capital city. At a cost of $0.20 per pupil, ¡Expande tu Mente! was highly cost-effective. The results show the potential that brief growth-mindset interventions have for developing countries.
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| Format: | Working Paper biblioteca |
| Language: | English |
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2020-02
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| Subjects: | STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT, ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT, EDUCATION, DISADVANTAGED STUDENT, GROWTH MINDSET, METACOGNITION, STUDENT PERFORMANCE, STUDENT LEARNING, |
| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/212351580740956027/The-Power-of-Believing-You-Can-Get-Smarter-The-Impact-of-a-Growth-Mindset-Intervention-on-Academic-Achievement-in-Peru https://hdl.handle.net/10986/33297 |
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