With respect to motivation, the Brainology program is explicity designed to impact Students’ implicit theory of ability. As noted above, Dweck and her colleagues (Dweck and Leggett 1988; Blackwell et al. 2007) have shown students possess particular ‘mindsets’ that can influence their motivational and developmental trajectiories through the course of school (e.g., fixed theory of ability vs. incremental theory of ability). The Brainology program activities have been found to encourage students toward a incremental view of ability.