Growth mindset interventions targeted at improving students’ academic achievements are common. A new study shows that they have little to no actual effect.
A new study investigated the effectiveness of growth mindset interventions focussing on high quality data.Can a growth mindset help improve academic performance?interventions. The basic idea behind this is that students can have either a “fixed mindset” about their abilities or a “growth mindset” .
It is assumed that having a growth mindset has a positive effect on academic achievement. Therefore, schools and universities often offer interventions that should help student develop a “growth mindset,” thinking this would improve their academic achievement. Some psychological studies indeed show this association, but does the effect hold when the findings of the most trustworthy high-quality studies on growth mindset interventions are integrated?To answer this question, researcher Carolina Gazmuri from Durham University in the UK conducted a new structured review on studies about the effectiveness of growth mindset interventions . After screening the relevant literature, she included 24 studies. Importantly, the review did not include all types of studies but specifically focused on so-called randomized controlled trials. This is a type of study that yields especially high-quality data. Randomized controlled trials are the gold standard to determine whether a psychological intervention is effective or not. In a randomized controlled trial, volunteers are tested in two groups: an experimental group that receives the treatment and a control group without the intervention. Importantly, volunteers are assigned at random to the two groups, minimizing the effects of potential individual differences between volunteers. To further assess study quality, all studies were rated on several indicators of scientific quality, such as data quality. This was done to identify the highest quality studies on growth mindset interventions.Overall, 14 different growth mindset study outcomes got the highest quality rating in the review. The findings were quite interesting: The lowest quality studies reported the biggest effects for growth mindset interventions. The higher the study quality was, the lower the effect was. Importantly, when only the 14 study outcomes with the highest quality rating were considered, the effect of growth mindset interventions was around zero. Thus, there was no effect at all. This discrepancy between low-quality and high-quality studies suggests that the effects observed in low-quality studies are more likely caused by problems in study designs (such as expectation effects of researchers that mayThe conclusions of the paper were clear: Growth mindset interventions do not improve the academic achievements of students. Just by telling somebody that their intelligence can grow if they work hard, it does not actually grow. Other interventions to improve performance in schools or universities should be developed.Whatever your goals, it’s the struggle to get there that’s most rewarding. It’s almost as if life itself is inviting us to embrace difficulty—not as punishment but as a design feature. It's a robust system for growth.Self Tests are all about you. Are you outgoing or introverted? Are you a narcissist? Does perfectionism hold you back? Find out the answers to these questions and more with Psychology Today.
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