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March 2, 2012 Are You Gritty Enough For College? Why do some students drop out of college, while others persist? Researchers think it may have something to do with a person's level of "grit" and are trying to figure out whether this trait can be taught to others.

Here's a link to an article from Duckworth about her research on grit: http://www.sas.upenn.edu/~duckwort/images/Grit%20JPSP.pdf and here's a link to the 8- and 12-item versions of the scales: http://www.sas.upenn.edu/~duckwort/gritscale.htm

Here's a description of one of the commercial tools currently available allegedly addressing (in a generic way) psychosocial attributes related to learning readiness. I doubt this is something we'd be interested in using but it's interesting to compare the conceptual framework to the other approaches we've been reviewing...