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[quote=Anonymous]You can dismiss it as a meaningless fad if you want to.  I don’t think it’s that simple.  https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/debate-arises-over-teaching-growth-mindsets-to-motivate-students/

Like most things, it comes down to the details.  Schools need to really understand it in order to implement it.  If a school pays lip service to growth mindset but doesn’t really implement it, it’s not going to “work.”   And I don’t think anyone is saying it improve all students across the board, but that it will improve students at the margin.  Some kids will do great without a growth mindset (but they’re not likely to do better than if they had), some will do poorly with one. But a large middle will improve over the *long term*.  It seems common sense to focus on actual learning that chasing grades.  Grades do not necessarily reflect what you’ve learned or how well.  They are under artificial time constraints that may or may not reflect real work conditions.  They are just the most convenient way for a teacher to distinguish among students, but not the only way.  [/quote]

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