Background: Increasing students’ learning and their completion of high school has been a policy challenge for many years. This thesis investigates how the psychological mechanism of growth mindset is related to educational ...

I arbeidslivet er det vanlig å bruke gruppearbeid som arbeidsform, men vi har begrenset kunnskap om hvordan sosial usikkerhet påvirker denne arbeidsformen. Denne oppgaven undersøker derfor hva som kan redusere individers ...

Here we evaluate the potential for growth mindset interventions (which teach students that intellectual abilities can be developed) to inspire adolescents to be “learners”—that is, to seek out challenging learning experiences. ...

Research by psychologists and economists demonstrates that many non-cognitive skillsare malleable in both children and adolescents, but we have limited knowledge on what schools can do to foster these skills. In a field ...

We estimate the job displacement effect on criminal behavior for young adult Norwegian men separated from their plant of employment during a mass layoff. Displaced workers experience a 20 percent increase in criminal charge ...

På tross av stor innsats i Norge for å øke fullføringsgraden i den videregående skolen er det et stort frafall, og prosentandelen som fullfører er lav. Frafall representerer et stort samfunnsproblem både fordi det er dyrt ...

Substantial gender differences in key academic skills appear even before children start formal schooling. Although increasing investments in early-childhood programs is motivated by efforts to promote equality of opportunity ...

A large literature suggests that high quality childcare programs can produce positive and lasting effects by promoting math, language and social-emotional skills, referred to as school readiness skills, especially for ...