Why interventions to influence adolescent behavior often fail but could succeed

DS Yeager, RE Dahl, CS Dweck - … on Psychological Science, 2018 - journals.sagepub.com
We provide a developmental perspective on two related issues:(a) why traditional
preventative school-based interventions work reasonably well for children but less so for …

Motivation interventions in education: A meta-analytic review

RA Lazowski, CS Hulleman - Review of Educational …, 2016 - journals.sagepub.com
This meta-analysis provides an extensive and organized summary of intervention studies in
education that are grounded in motivation theory. We identified 74 published and …

How gender and race stereotypes impact the advancement of scholars in STEM: Professors' biased evaluations of physics and biology post-doctoral candidates

AA Eaton, JF Saunders, RK Jacobson, K West - Sex roles, 2020 - Springer
The current study examines how intersecting stereotypes about gender and race influence
faculty perceptions of post-doctoral candidates in STEM fields in the United States. Using a …

Wise interventions: Psychological remedies for social and personal problems.

GM Walton, TD Wilson - Psychological review, 2018 - psycnet.apa.org
Long-standing social problems such as poor achievement, personal and intergroup conflict,
bad health, and unhappiness can seem like permanent features of the social landscape. We …

Mind-set interventions are a scalable treatment for academic underachievement

D Paunesku, GM Walton, C Romero… - Psychological …, 2015 - journals.sagepub.com
The efficacy of academic-mind-set interventions has been demonstrated by small-scale,
proof-of-concept interventions, generally delivered in person in one school at a time …

Closing achievement gaps with a utility-value intervention: Disentangling race and social class.

JM Harackiewicz, EA Canning, Y Tibbetts… - Journal of personality …, 2016 - psycnet.apa.org
Many college students abandon their goal of completing a degree in science, technology,
engineering, or math (STEM) when confronted with challenging introductory-level science …

Improving student outcomes in higher education: The science of targeted intervention

JM Harackiewicz, SJ Priniski - Annual review of psychology, 2018 - annualreviews.org
Many theoretically based interventions have been developed over the past two decades to
improve educational outcomes in higher education. Based in social-psychological and …

[HTML][HTML] Nudging in education

MT Damgaard, HS Nielsen - Economics of Education Review, 2018 - Elsevier
Can we nudge children, adolescents and their parents to make better decisions on
education? And can we nudge teachers to support and encourage better decision making …

A vicious cycle: A social–psychological account of extreme racial disparities in school discipline

JA Okonofua, GM Walton… - Perspectives on …, 2016 - journals.sagepub.com
Can social–psychological theory provide insight into the extreme racial disparities in school
disciplinary action in the United States? Disciplinary problems carry enormous …

A customized belonging intervention improves retention of socially disadvantaged students at a broad-access university

MC Murphy, M Gopalan, ER Carter, KTU Emerson… - Science …, 2020 - science.org
Broad-access institutions play a democratizing role in American society, opening doors to
many who might not otherwise pursue college. Yet these institutions struggle with …