Project description
Boosting adolescent motivation and achievement through brain training
Adolescence is often marked by sharp declines in school motivation and achievement, negatively impacting academic success and mental well-being. These challenges affect not only students, but also teachers and parents. A promising intervention target is the adolescent belief in the malleability of their abilities, known as a growth mindset. This belief helps protect against motivational declines and enhances resilience. With this in mind, the ERC-funded EXPLOREYOURBRAIN2.0 project builds on the innovative Explore Your Brain (EYB) programme, which combines brain plasticity concepts with neurofeedback. The project aims to improve EYB’s usability and scalability, making it more accessible for classroom use. By refining the intervention and planning for large-scale implementation, EXPLOREYOURBRAIN2.0 hopes to boost academic motivation and achievement.
Objective
Adolescence is a period of sharp declines in school motivation and achievement, with negative consequences not only for the academic success and mental wellbeing of youth, but also for teachers and parents. An interesting target for intervention is adolescents implicit belief that their abilities are malleable (growth mindset), which has been shown to protect against declines in motivation and achievement, and to boost resilience in school and beyond. This PoC builds on the innovative growth mindset intervention Explore Your Brain (EYB), developed in the ERC StG BRAINBELIEFS. EYB uniquely combines theoretical information about brain plasticity with an experience of influence over ones own brain, generated using neurofeedback. The results were very promising, but the technology is still in applied research status and not yet easily usable by teachers in the classroom.
The main goal of this PoC is to drastically increase the impact that we can achieve on academic motivation, achievement and resilience of high school students by improving our prototype growth mindset intervention. The breakthrough of the innovation depends on increasing usability (Objective 1) and scalability (Objective 2), to maximize the number of adolescents who can profit from the innovation. To reach Objective 1, a Research & Development team including game designers and education specialists will iteratively develop and test Explore Your Brain 2.0 (EYB 2.0) adopting a users-as-designers approach. To reach Objective 2, a Business Development team will develop a business plan for financially and logistically feasible large-scale implementation of EYB 2.0.
After completing this project, we hope to implement EYB 2.0 nationally as well as internationally at a large scale, thereby protecting a maximum number of adolescents against declines in school motivation and achievements. This benefits society at large because of higher educational attainment and mental wellbeing of the next generation.
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HORIZON.1.1 - European Research Council (ERC)
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1081 HV Amsterdam
Netherlands
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