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teaching your students Malleable intelligence You should by now be well acquainted with the theory of malleable intelligence and the research that supports it. But you may also like to know that a recent study by faculty at Columbia University seems to indicate that actually teaching your students about malleable intelligence theory - sharing this information with them on how the brain works - can increase their levels of academic achievement. The study in question focused on two groups of junior high school students receiving direct, one-on-one tutoring time and individual instruction. The control group was not given access to this information on malleable intelligence, while the experimental group of students read articles on this theory and the research that supports it, and discussed with their mentors how the brain works and expands over time to accumulate knowledge. The results from the study showed that students who believed their intelligence was malleable held many other positive attitudes about learning as a goal and working hard to achieve success, and therefore they chose more positive, effort-based strategies to attack any difficulties they encountered in their academic work. The study revealed a strong correlation between these positive attitudes/work methods and the success of the students in terms of their mathematic abilities. For another measure of difference between the control and experimental groups, researchers asked the teachers of each group of students to assess changes in their students’ classroom motivation over the period of the intervention. (Note: as the intervention occurred outside the classroom, teachers did not know which students were in which group and had received this information.) Teachers cited a positive change in the effort and interest in 27% of the students in the experimental group, compared to 9% of the students in the control group. Typical comments from teachers showed that those students who were taught abo