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To What Extent and Under Which Circumstances Are Growth Mind-Sets Important to Academic Achievement? Two Meta-Analyses
Abstract
Mind-sets (aka implicit theories) are beliefs about the nature of human attributes (e.g., intelligence). The theory holds that individuals with growth mind-sets (beliefs that attributes are malleable with effort) enjoy many positive outcomes—including higher academic achievement—while their peers who have fixed mind-sets experience negative outcomes. Given this relationship, interventions designed to increase students’ growth mind-sets—thereby increasing their academic achievement—have been implemented in schools around the world. In our first meta-analysis ( k = 273, N = 365,915), we examined the strength of the relationship between mind-set and academic achievement and potential moderating factors. In our second meta-analysis ( k = 43, N = 57,155), we examined the effectiveness of mind-set interventions on academic achievement and potential moderating factors. Overall effects were weak for both meta-analyses. However, some results supported specific tenets of the theory, namely, that students with low socioeconomic status or who are academically at risk might benefit from mind-set interventions.
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“among the studies that reported manipulation checks, the meta-analytic effect on academic achievement was significant for studies where the manipulation checks failed but non-significant for studies where the manipulation checks succeeded.”
From Do growth mindset interventions impact students’ academic achievement? A systematic review and meta-analysis with recommendations for best practices. (2023) · cites this paper as Sisk et al. (2018)
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“Overall, the relationship between students' mindsets and academic achievement appears to be, at most, weak, and not always in the hypothesized direction.”
From Do growth mindset interventions impact students’ academic achievement? A systematic review and meta-analysis with recommendations for best practices. (2023) · cites this paper as Sisk et al. (2018)
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“The effect on academic achievement was significant for studies that did not report manipulation checks but nonsignificant for studies that did report manipulation checks.”
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“Overall, Sisk and colleagues (2018) found a small meta-analytic standardized mean difference between intervention and control groups' academic achievement, favoring the interventions: 𝑑 ̅ = 0.08, 95% CI [0.02, 0.14].”
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“Sisk et al. (2018) found that about 1 /3 of growth mindset intervention studies did not report whether the growth mindset intervention influenced students to have more of a growth mindset.Of those that did, around half failed to demonstrate the intervention changed students' mindsets as intended.”
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“These inclusion criteria are identical to Sisk et al.'s (2018) inclusion criteria, with two exceptions.”
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“Thus, relative to Sisk et al. (2018), the present meta-analysis includes more than double the number of records and nearly double the total number of participants.”
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“Per-protocol analyses-analyses that only included the 239 schools that administered the treatment as intended-yielded ds = 0.03 and 0.01 for two academic achievement measures (see Sisk et al., 2018).”
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“The first meta-analysis of growth mindset interventions in 2018 (which did not account for study quality) elicited conflicting conclusions: The meta-analysis authors (Sisk et al., 2018) concluded that effects of growth mindset interventions on academic achievement were small and cautioned they may be due to extraneous factors; Dweck (2018), the developer of mindset theory, concluded that the same”
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- Authors
- Sisk, V. F., Burgoyne, A. P., Sun, J., Butler, J. L., & Macnamara, B. N.
- Affiliations
- Case Western Reserve University (US)
- Michigan State University (US)
- Corresponding author
- Macnamara, Brooke N.
- Venue
- Psychological Science
- Publisher
- SAGE Publications
- Published
- 2018-03-05
- Volume
- 29
- Issue
- 4
- Pages
- 549-571
- ISSN
- 0956-7976 (ISSN-L)
- 1467-9280
- OpenAlex
- W2789363920
- Semantic Scholar
- ee2e51b22572bb6f29021c8bbd12674137bcb6b2
- Cited by
- 1,159
- References
- 39
- Citations by year
- 2026: 148 · 2025: 137 · 2024: 114 · 2023: 206 · 2022: 133 · 2021: 128 · 2020: 173 · 2019: 93 · 2018: 24
- FWCI
- 16.76
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Psychological Science (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Developmental and Educational Psychology › Education, Achievement, and Giftedness
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Grit, Self-Efficacy, and Motivation
- Social Sciences › Education › School Choice and Performance
- Keywords
- implicit theories of intelligence, academic performance, socioeconomic status, at-risk students, moderators, intelligence beliefs
- MeSH terms
- Academic Success, Adolescent, Adult, Attitude, Child, Female, Humans, Intelligence, Male, Self Concept, Students, Young Adult
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