Research grantee David Yeager is studying whether an exercise that instills in students the idea that intelligence can be developed over time can reduce disparities in math achievement. He tells Adam Gamoran, “As more and more behavioral-science-based experiments have come under intense scrutiny for difficulty with replication, it’s important to put the prominent phenomenon of growth mindset to its toughest test so far.”

In these slides, Kim DuMont revisits the goals of the Institutional Challenge Grant, shares lessons drawn from the first cycle of applications, and reviews important changes for the second year of the competition. Co-PI of the first Grant, Rachel Dunifon, interim dean of Cornell University’s College of Human Ecology, also discusses the process of developing a proposal and research agenda, the structures that can sustain a partnership, and how to tackle the challenge of institutional change.

In this post, written for the Stanford Social Innovation Review, Adam Gamoran highlights the importance of “reshaping incentives within the university to support faculty research that responds to real-life challenges.”