Can a growth mindset help disadvantaged students close the gap?

Why do certain students thrive when facing adversity while others languish? In the mindset theory, growth is opposed to fixed mindset, and could explain why some people fulfil their potential not. With COVID pandemic dragging on, having a may be even more critical. For who are able set own learning goals, elaborate strategies, master progress, disruptive experience of school closing enriching. used being led in have little taste for steering on own, devastating. This PISA Focus analyses how related performance well-being 15-year-old students, its implications terms equity.