Reading intervention with a growth mindset approach improves children's skills

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 113, Issue 43, 2016, Pages 12111-12113

  Andersen, Simon Calmar ^a   Nielsen, Helena Skyt ^a  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Education; Parent intervention; Parental beliefs; Randomized controlled trial; Reading intervention

Indexed keywords

ACHIEVEMENT; CHILD GROWTH; CHILD PARENT RELATION; COMPREHENSION; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; EDUCATION; GROWTH; HUMAN; INCOME; LANGUAGE ABILITY; PARENTAL BEHAVIOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; READING; SKILL; WRITING; ATTITUDE; CHILD; DENMARK; ETHICS; FEMALE; MALE; MIGRANT; MOTIVATION; PARENT; PHYSIOLOGY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PSYCHOLOGY;

ACHIEVEMENT; ATTITUDE; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DENMARK; EMIGRANTS AND IMMIGRANTS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MOTIVATION; PARENT-CHILD RELATIONS; PARENTS; READING;

EID: 84992360095     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1607946113     Document Type: Article

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