Increasing perseverance in math: Evidence from a field experiment in Norway

Bettinger, Eric; Ludvigsen, Sten; Rege, Mari; Solli, Ingeborg Foldøy; Yeager, David S.

doi:10.1016/j.jebo.2017.11.032

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“…We note that the study by Paunesku et al (2015) potentially suffers from selection bias because as little as 3% of the students in participating schools are part of the study. However, other studies using online growth-mindset interventions have had almost complete coverage at participating schools and found similar results on grades, continued college enrolment or academic performance some time later (Yeager et al, 2016a;Yeager et al, 2016b;Bettinger, Ludvigsen, Rege, & Scolli, 2018). Bettinger et al (2018) showed that positive effects mainly arose for students who originally had a fixed mindset i.e.…”

Section: Growth Mindset Feedbackmentioning

confidence: 81%

Nudging in education

Damgaard

Nielsen

2018

Economics of Education Review

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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? Education decisions are taken at young ages and involve immediate costs and potential, future benefits. In such settings behavioural barriers (e.g. lack of selfcontrol, limited attention and social norms) likely influence choices and this may motivate the use of low cost 'nudges' to gently push behaviour in the desired direction. Our review of nudging interventions shows that while nudging often has positive effects, the greatest effects often arise for individuals affected most by the behavioural barrier targeted by the intervention. Hence understanding underlying behavioural mechanisms is crucial. Negative effects may arise in situations where nudges potentially crowd-out intrinsic motivation, if nudges pressurise individuals, or in situations where the choice architect has an insufficient understanding of behavioural mechanisms.[P]eople will need nudges for decisions that are difficult and rare, for which they do not get prompt feedback, and when they have trouble translating aspects of the situation into terms that they can easily understand.

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Section: Growth Mindset Feedbackmentioning

confidence: 81%

Nudging in education

Damgaard

Nielsen

2018

Economics of Education Review

247

110

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“…And they have been. For example, economists working with the World Bank in Peru administered our materials to more than 50,000 students with benefits for achievement test scores across subject areas (World Bank, 2017; for a replication by economists working in Norway, see Bettinger, Ludvigsen, Rege, Solli, & Yeager, 2018).…”

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confidence: 99%

The Choice to Make a Difference

Dweck

2019

Perspect Psychol Sci

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“…Our planning interventions relate to a broader and growing literature on the application of behavioral insights to education settings (Lavecchia, Liu, and Oreopoulos 2016;Damgaard and Nielsen 2018). Recent attempts to help improve academic outcomes focus on prompting students to think about future goals (Clark et al 2017;Dobronyi et al 2017), encouraging more healthy perspectives for dealing with setbacks or anxiety (Yeager et al 2016;Bettinger et al 2018), and low-cost encouragement or advising (Fryer 2016;Castleman and Meyer 2016;. We focus instead on targeting study time, treating it as a crucial necessary (but not sufficient) condition for academic success.…”

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When Studying and Nudging Don’t Go as Planned: Unsuccessful Attempts to Help Traditional and Online College Students

Oreopoulos¹,

Patterson²,

Petronijevic³

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Previously circulated as "Lack of Study Time is the Problem, but What is the Solution? Unsuccessful Attempts to Help Traditional and Online College Students." At the University of Toronto, we are indebted to the first-year economics instructors for their willingness to incorporate an experiment into their courses for a fourth consecutive year. We especially thank James Lahey, our web developer, for his tireless commitment to designing and perfecting the experiment's website, as well as for his help with organizing and extracting the experimental data.

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Increasing perseverance in math: Evidence from a field experiment in Norway

Cited by 125 publications

References 36 publications

Nudging in education

Nudging in education

The Choice to Make a Difference

When Studying and Nudging Don’t Go as Planned: Unsuccessful Attempts to Help Traditional and Online College Students

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