The Nurture of Intelligence - TWIN-CS智力的培养twin-cs.ppt

* * Thus for both girls in math and latinos on reading, we significantly boosted their performance on a year end standardized test by teaching them the malleable view of intelligence. It is important to note that The manipulations had no effects on students’ beliefs regarding other people’s stereotypical views of their abilities. When we measured students expectations that others would judge them according to their social identity, the malleable group look no different than the control groups. What differed then is their academic reactions to the prospect of being stereotyped. As suggested by our lab studies, we think they responded with reduced anxiety and increased motivation. One of the things that is so intriguing about this research is how much one can accomplish by changing one key idea. What we wonder, is whether by changing other ideas at the same time, we might be able to compound these positive effects. If so, one can well imaging a multifaceted intervention could put a significant dent in the minority white achievement gap. * * * * * * Foster expansive notions of intelligence and growth mindset Normalize experiences of difficulty Promote awareness of stereotype threat Provide “wise criticism” in formative feedback * * * Among my key questions are: What makes the intelligence of some groups more fragile than others? And, what can be done to make people’s intelligence more resistant? There are lots of answers to these questions. I’m going to focus on just a couple of answers today. * Various things can suppress our intelligence. I just described one of them, what we might call interpersonal intimidation--loss of composure due to being in the presence of others to whom we want to look smart. It’s anecdotal, of course there is a recent line of research relevant To this. Roy Baumeister just published a series of studies showing that if people anticipate social rejection, they become considerably more stupid. Baumeister gave his research pa