{"id":3549,"date":"2021-05-10T06:15:24","date_gmt":"2021-05-10T06:15:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/3.35.173.53\/?p=3549"},"modified":"2021-05-10T06:15:24","modified_gmt":"2021-05-10T06:15:24","slug":"yeager-d-s-walton-g-m-brady-s-t-akcinar-e-n-paunesku-d-keane-l-gomez-e-m-2016-teaching-a-lay-theory-before-college-narrows-achievement-gaps-at-scale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/happyfinder.co.kr\/?p=3549","title":{"rendered":"Yeager, D. S., Walton, G. M., Brady, S. T., Akcinar, E. N., Paunesku, D., Keane, L., … & Gomez, E. M. (2016). Teaching a lay theory before college narrows achievement gaps at scale."},"content":{"rendered":"

Previous experiments have shown that college students benefit when they understand that challenges in the transition to college are common and improvable and, thus, that early struggles need not portend a permanent lack of belonging or potential. Could such an approach\u2014called a lay theory intervention\u2014be effective before college matriculation? Could this strategy reduce a portion of racial, ethnic, and socioeconomic achievement gaps for entire institutions? Three double-blind experiments tested this possibility. Ninety percent of first-year college students from three institutions were randomly assigned to complete single-session, online lay theory or control materials before matriculation (n<\/em> > 9,500). The lay theory interventions raised first-year full-time college enrollment among students from socially and economically disadvantaged backgrounds exiting a high-performing charter high school network or entering a public flagship university (experiments 1 and 2) and, at a selective private university, raised disadvantaged students\u2019 cumulative first-year grade point average (experiment 3). These gains correspond to 31\u201340% reductions of the raw (unadjusted) institutional achievement gaps between students from disadvantaged and nondisadvantaged backgrounds at those institutions. Further, follow-up surveys suggest that the interventions improved disadvantaged students\u2019 overall college experiences, promoting use of student support services and the development of friendship networks and mentor relationships. This research therefore provides a basis for further tests of the generalizability of preparatory lay theories interventions and of their potential to reduce social inequality and improve other major life transitions.<\/p>\n

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Yeager, D. S., Walton, G. M., Brady, S. T., Akcinar, E. N., Paunesku, D., Keane, L., … & Gomez, E. M. (2016). Teaching a lay theory before college narrows achievement gaps at scale. <\/span>Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 113<\/span>(24), E3341-E3348.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Previous experiments have shown that college students benefit when they understand that challenges in the transition to college are common and improvable and, thus, that early struggles need not portend a permanent lack of belonging or potential. Could such an approach\u2014called a lay theory intervention\u2014be effective before college matriculation? Could this strategy reduce a portion […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,15],"tags":[1050,107],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/happyfinder.co.kr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3549"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/happyfinder.co.kr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/happyfinder.co.kr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/happyfinder.co.kr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/happyfinder.co.kr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3549"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/happyfinder.co.kr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3549\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3550,"href":"https:\/\/happyfinder.co.kr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3549\/revisions\/3550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/happyfinder.co.kr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/happyfinder.co.kr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/happyfinder.co.kr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}