I wonder what Charles Murray has to say about this story on NPR about new research indicating that students’ beliefs about their intelligence can impact how they do in school. Students who believed their intelligence could grow got better grades than students who believed their intelligence was fixed.
An interesting part of the study design is that they didn’t just use motivational speaking to convince students they could change their intelligence, but they actually taught the students how their brains worked – that their brains formed new pathways when they were learning and could actually change to increase their ability to solve challenging problems and learn new material. Understanding the truth behind intelligence and the brain can be a powerful tool, one that these kids will hopefully use throughout their lives whenever someone tries to convince them that they just can't learn something.
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