This article reports on a study examining "how secondary students report studying, and the associations these choices have with students' beliefs in their own abilities." The URL for the original study in the article is incorrect, but you can find it here (21 page PDF). I was originally going to complain about the authors inventing a new protocol, which they do, but there's much more to chew on. I was going to complain about "yet another study measuring X's perception of Y" but the study at least finds an association between perception and outcome, which is good, while also casting doubt on the whole 'mindset causes outcomes' argument, which is also good. That's the main focus of the article. But the original study contains an extra treat: the authors seek to find an association between "behaviors supported by cognitive science," such as explained by cognitive load theory and the like, and found it "could explain 9% of school achievement variance," a number that might be further reduced by some other correlations.
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