All entries for Friday 26 June 2015

growth–mind–set and sense–of–purpose interventions

Writing about web page http://pss.sagepub.com/content/early/2015/04/09/0956797615571017.abstract

In the Mathematical Resilience model we have a factor we call 'value'; we see 'value' as closely related to 'pupose' and 'meaning'.

In the research by Paunesku and colleagues from Stanford and Texas, the authors combine Dweck's 'growth mindset' with 'sense-or-purpose'. They find that:

"Among students at risk of dropping out of high school (one third of the sample), each intervention raised students’ semester grade point averages in core academic courses and increased the rate at which students performed satisfactorily in core courses by 6.4 percentage points."

Sue Johnston-Wilder : 26 Jun 2015 11:22 |  Comments (0) |  Close comments |  Report a problem