Thomas Dee

In the study, the researchers aimed to evaluate whether a brief, psychological intervention that has raised challenge-seeking and achievement among students in secondary schools and some 4-year colleges can have similar benefit for students enrolled in community college. This intervention aims to instill a "growth mindset" (i.e., the belief that intelligence is something a person can develop through practice) because this mindset has been shown to correlate with supportive academic...

The partnership of the District of Columbia Public Schools (DCPS), University of Virginia (UVA), and Stanford University focused on the development and analysis of student, teacher, and school administrative data from DCPS to understand the effects of IMPACT: The DCPS Effectiveness Assessment System for School-Based Personnel on student achievement and guide its ongoing design refinements. In addition, researchers worked closely with policymakers to understand better the strategic and instit...

Two recent field trials (Cohen et al. 2006; Good, Aronson, and Inzlicht 2003) suggest that modest interventions designed to buffer middle-school students against stereotype threat are effective at closing achievement gaps (e.g., raising minority student achievement by as much as 0.50 standard deviations, which is roughly equivalent to 50 percent of the minority achievement gap). This study replicates the Cohen et al. (2006) study using a more comprehensive set of student-level outcome measur...