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Ann Steckel

Social-Psychological Interventions in Education - 0 views

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    Recent randomized experiments have found that seemingly "small" social-psychological interventions in education-that is, brief exercises that target students' thoughts, feelings, and beliefs in and about school-can lead to large gains in student achievement and sharply reduce achievement gaps even months and years later.
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http://www.rpgroup.org/sites/default/files/PractitionerPrimer_Spring2014.pdf - 0 views

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    the report with 6 success factors
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Productive Persistence - 1 views

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    Printer-friendly version What is Productive Persistence? The Carnegie Foundation defines " Productive Persistence" as a set of behaviors that involves the tenacity and good strategies students need to be academically successful. Many students work hard in developmental math classes-studying long hours, nights and weekends-yet many of them do so using ineffective strategies.
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The Duckworth Lab - 1 views

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    My research examines two traits that predict success in life: grit and self-control. Grit is the tendency to sustain interest in and effort toward very long-term goals (Duckworth, Peterson, Matthews, & Kelly, 2007). Self-control refers to the voluntary regulation of behavioral, emotional, and attentional impulses (Duckworth, 2011).
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TED Talk Angela Lee Duckworth - 0 views

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    Good summary on the concept of Grit and it's correlation to student success
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Who Gets to Graduate? - 1 views

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    For as long as she could remember, Vanessa Brewer had her mind set on going to college. The image of herself as a college student appealed to her - independent, intelligent, a young woman full of potential - but it was more than that; it was a chance to rewrite the ending to a family story that went off track 18 years earlier, when Vanessa's mother, then a high-achieving high-school senior in a small town in Arkansas, became pregnant with Vanessa.
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