New Directions in Social Psychological Interventions to Improve Academic Achievement

Attempts to improve student achievement typically focus on changing the educational environment (e.g., better schools, better teachers) or on personal characteristics of students (e.g., intelligence, self-control). The 6 articles in this special issue showcase an additional approach, emanating from...

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Published in:Journal of educational psychology 2016-04, Vol.108 (3), p.392-396
Main Authors: Wilson, Timothy D., Buttrick, Nicholas R.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Academic Achievement
Affective Objectives
Attitude Change
Attribution
Beliefs
Change Strategies
Human
Intelligence
Intervention
Metacognition
Mindset
Self control
Social Psychology
Student Centered Curriculum
Student Improvement
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Summary:Attempts to improve student achievement typically focus on changing the educational environment (e.g., better schools, better teachers) or on personal characteristics of students (e.g., intelligence, self-control). The 6 articles in this special issue showcase an additional approach, emanating from social psychology, which focuses on students' beliefs and understandings of themselves and their environments. Previous studies have shown that small interventions designed to change student beliefs (e.g., attributions, mindsets, self-stories) can result in long-term academic improvement, and the 6 articles in this special issue build on and extend the social psychological approach in significant ways, demonstrating at scales both small and large, how these beliefs come to be, how to change them, and how they actually work to create academic improvement. We discuss the both the promise and limits of this approach.
ISSN:0022-0663
1939-2176
DOI:10.1037/edu0000111