Integrating Mindset Interventions with Language Arts Instruction: An Exploratory Study with Seventh Grade Students

RMLE Online

Volumn 40, Issue 7, 2017, Pages 1-15

  Strahan, David ^a   Hansen, Kloo ^a   Meyer, Annie ^a   Buchanan, Ryan ^a   Doherty, Jennifer ^b  

^a WESTERN CAROLINA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b City of Asheville   (United States)

Author keywords

classroom research; instructional practices; literacy; middle school; mindset

Indexed keywords

EID: 85057135387     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19404476     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/19404476.2017.1349986     Document Type: Article

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