Interventionen für Wachstumsinterventionen werden häufig verwendet, um die akademische Leistung von Studenten zu verbessern. Eine neue Studie ergab jedoch, dass Interventionen für die Wachstum von Denkweise die akademischen Leistungen von Studenten nicht verbessern. Nur wenn er jemandem sagt, dass seine Intelligenz wachsen kann, wenn er hart arbeitet, wächst sie nicht wirklich.
https://www.psychologytoday.com/au/blog/the-asymmetric-brain/202509/is-this-the-end-of-the-growth-mindset-theory
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I’ve linked to the news release in the post above. In this comment, for those interested, here’s the link to the peer reviewed journal article:
https://bera-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/rev3.70066
From the linked article:
Is This the End of the Growth Mindset Theory?
New study shows that growth mindset interventions do not improve performance.
KEY POINTS
**Growth mindset interventions are often used to improve the academic performance of students**
A new study investigated the effectiveness of growth mindset interventions focussing on high quality data.
Growth mindset interventions have little to no effect on academic performance.
Take Away: Growth mindset interventions do not help much in improving academic performance
The 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.
Not to be facetious, but did anyone think this actually worked? Were there real studies that led people down this path?
Isn’t growth mindset just about taking risks and being ok with failure and mistakes?
Turns out you still have to do the work to accomplish the growth?
This may suggest that you can’t give them growth mindset training alone. If you’re giving them that training but not also giving them the training how to study well, I could see this failing–you’re telling them that they can do better without telling them how.
Moreover, what if you give them the training and they just don’t care anyway?
Telling someone about growth mindsets doesn’t give them a growth mindset. And that’s all these ‚interventions‘ ever are.
If you tell people to get over their depression, you’ll probably get the same results.
You can’t increase your IQ, but you can increase your efficiency **within** that IQ. For instance, someone with a 110 IQ who sleeps well, eats well, exercises hard, and is self-disciplined will perform much better than someone with the same 110 IQ who does not.
For a growth mindset to work it has to really be part of your identity in my opinion. No amount of telling someone it’s okay to fail and be rubbish at first when learning a new skill is going to make them actually feel that way when it happens and prevent them from abandoning the effort because they didn’t like how failure felt.
They also have to value the skills they are trying to acquire, if they aren’t surrounded by people who value reading and maths skills they won’t have incentive to do the hard work even if they believe they could achieve with effort and were fine with failure.
Carol Dweck, is, was, and always will be, a fraud.
This is no surprise. Do a bunch of noisy, low quality studies and something turns up significant. Try to prove it by doing a few more low quality studies that youre able to massage and surprise surprise you can find a significant effect. Do a TED talk and seek out journalists and youre the next big thing.
Now that it’s established in the literature other people do high quality studies with good sample sizes to see if it replicates. It doesn’t. People no longer believe you and forget it existed in a few years.
Something else is now the next big thing. It doesn’t replicate.
THANK YOU SCIENCE. Innate ability differences are real. Telling people otherwise is just gaslighting.
Growth mindset is about helping people learn to keep trying when things are hard. It’s a mental health resiliency skill, not literally meant to make you smarter. Intelligence is supposed to be somewhat fixed, so it’s weird they even tested this.
Source: am a social worker in schools.
The people responsible for corporate trainings would be upset if they could read this.
I mean this seems like a no brainer but I can see why this needs to be said.
This is exactly how “life coaches” end up taking money away from money hungry 20 year olds. They continue to tell them to keep investing in themselves and they can manifest themselves into being millionaires. It’s a cycle as old as time