It’s an often mentioned chapter in our second Urban Myths book: growth mindset. Many people are surprised to read that the impact of these interventions is often very limited, to say the least. A new study by Yeager and many others, amongst who Carol Dweck, have now studied a possible explanation why mindset interventions sometimes… Read More Possible explanation why growth mindset interventions sometimes work and sometimes don’t work

I think it was Tim Surma who first shared this study by Fischer & Hänze this morning, but a lot of tweeps already shared the study since that tweet. And I can understand why, check the highlights: Student-activating methods are claimed to enhance student learning and motivation. Our study with 80 university courses and 1713… Read More This study is getting a lot of attention: “Back from “guide on the side” to “sage on the stage”? Effects of teacher-guided and student-activating teaching methods on student learning in higher education”

There is a new Best Evidence in Brief and this time I picked this study from this biweekly newsletter written up by Justin Hill: Carrie E. Markovitz and colleagues recently reported on a replication and expansion of a previous randomized controlled trial  focused on volunteer tutoring in reading for at-risk early elementary school students. The current… Read More Effectiveness of volunteer tutoring (Best Evidence in Brief)