Beliefs and their role for education quality and equality
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
- Across three papers I investigate aspects of beliefs related to motivation and education equality. The first two papers focus on a key belief for motivation: the belief that intelligence can grow (growth mindset). Specifically, in the first paper, co-authors and I document for the first time a growth mindset gap across socioeconomic lines among high school students in Chile. The paper also identifies a strong association between growth mindset and academic achievement at a national scale. The second paper examines, through an online RCT, the effectiveness of growth mindset interventions on teachers' professional development. The third paper uses a fuzzy regression discontinuity design to investigate whether the experience of becoming a teacher affects beliefs about solving education inequality in Chile. The results of these studies are relevant to the education policy debate. They shed light on the relationship between beliefs and educational inequality, and they help identify concrete psychological approaches that can increase opportunities for students.
Description
| Type of resource | text |
|---|---|
| Form | electronic; electronic resource; remote |
| Extent | 1 online resource. |
| Publication date | 2016 |
| Issuance | monographic |
| Language | English |
Creators/Contributors
| Associated with | Claro, Susana L |
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| Associated with | Stanford University, Graduate School of Education. |
| Primary advisor | Dweck, Carol S, 1946- |
| Primary advisor | Loeb, Susanna |
| Thesis advisor | Dweck, Carol S, 1946- |
| Thesis advisor | Loeb, Susanna |
| Thesis advisor | Dee, Thomas S. (Thomas Sean) |
| Advisor | Dee, Thomas S. (Thomas Sean) |
Subjects
| Genre | Theses |
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Bibliographic information
| Statement of responsibility | Susana Claro L. |
|---|---|
| Note | Submitted to the Graduate School of Education. |
| Thesis | Thesis (Ph.D.)--Stanford University, 2016. |
| Location | electronic resource |
Access conditions
- Copyright
- © 2016 by Susana Claro
- License
- This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial 3.0 Unported license (CC BY-NC).
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