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- Nov 2023
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key factor behind academic perseverance was students’ academic mindset — the attitudes and self-perceptions
Academic Mindset = attitudes + self-perceptsion
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act gritty
Interesting distinction - being gritty vs. acting gritty
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all students are more likely to demonstrate perseverance if the school or classroom context helps them develop positive mindsets and effective learning strategies.”
How can we. help students develop positive mindsets and effective learning strategies?
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If they hear the message that a failure is a final verdict on their ability, they may well give up and pull back from school. But if instead they get the message that a failure is a temporary stumble, or even a valuable opportunity to learn and improve, then that setback is more likely to propel them to invest more of themselves in their education.
Are these the only two types of messages a student can receive in response to their failure?
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She was particularly interested in what she called the “narrative” that exists within each school with regard to success and failure — the messages, subtle and not so subtle, that students receive when they fai
What is the "narrative" at your SL school that a student receives when they fail?
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17. Messages
An examination of the messages teachers send to students - intentionally or not.
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institutional structures affect individual behavior and, specifically, how certain educational structures — like school funding mechanisms, teacher contracts, or patterns of segregation — might incline students toward success or failure.
So Farrington was looking at the issue from a individual level (psych), as well as more societal/institutional level (sociology)
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