[Video Archive] AGI Seminar: “Heterogeneous Effects of Growth Mindset Interventions in Middle Schools” is now available on YouTube

Video archive of our AGI Seminar held online on Friday, July 10, 2026 is now available on YouTube.
Click the link below to watch the full video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kh0KMkDGpn8

Title: Heterogeneous Effects of Growth Mindset Interventions in Middle Schools (with Hiroki Takehashi, Keita Suzuki)

Presenter: Ryuichi Tanaka, Professor, Institute of Social Science, The University of Tokyo; and Visiting Professor, AGI

Abstract:

This paper studies a randomized field intervention designed to promote a growth mindset among seventh-grade students in middle schools in a large Japanese city. In collaboration with the local education board, four middle schools were selected and stratified by initial academic performance; one school in each stratum was randomly assigned to a growth-mindset lesson, while the comparison schools received a one-hour lesson on self-strength. Student attitudes were measured before the intervention, immediately after the intervention, and approximately one month later. The preliminary estimates indicate that the one-hour lesson increased growth-mindset-related attitudes in the short run, with the clearest effect on learning-objective orientation. The effects are concentrated in initially lower-performing schools and are not clearly observed one month after the intervention. Descriptive panel analyses further show that growth mindset and related response measures are positively associated with a wide range of student behaviors. The findings suggest that brief school-based lessons may shift students’ learning-related beliefs and their behaviors positively in the short run.

Language: English presentation and material

date：2026.08.05
Category：Seminars