Remember your abilities can grow

How sure is this?

• Goals
  Evidence Potential benefit

  Reminding yourself that your abilities can grow may make little or no difference to how much you get done.

  • A meta-analysis without both a risk-of-bias check and a publication-bias test.
  • U12 counted inside the meta-analysis, not again.

  Benefit size from Growth-mindset teaching gave a small grade gain overall, and more for less well-off students., against students who got no teaching, a placebo, or fixed-mindset teaching.

• Motivation
  Evidence Potential benefit

  Reminding yourself that your abilities can grow may help with motivation.

  • One well-controlled study testing it on its own.
  • One star off: every study behind it has a serious concern.

  Benefit size from Teaching that intelligence grows with learning halted the fall in math grades, against the same workshop with a memory lesson.