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A brief description of some other work focused on the "productive struggle" or "productive persistence" issue...

Check out David Yeager's 30 minute video on "Student Success and Productive Persistence"--a nice summary of his research, and obviously related to "productive struggle" (maybe a more positive way of framing it for students, actually...I also like his focus on teaching as a "cultural activity" and his notion that the quality of learning opportunities depends on a) deliberate practice (time on task) and b) making explicit the relationships between and among key concepts/ideas (and between problems/procedures and concepts)...

Here's a useful update to and summary of this work from the January 2011 Statway gathering: http://207.62.63.167/departments/mathematics/statway_talk.pdf

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

Jeff Cohen was referenced in David Yeager's Carnegie Statway video on "productive persistence"--here's a piece from Jeff directed to his students...

That's great, Peg--glad you found it helpful! As I reviewed it I was wondering if there would be ways to create opportunities for students to experience/practice these tips in a hands-on way rather than just being handed the list, and to what extent it would be worth doing that...?

I'm hoping that the Practitioner Group will see this and the 8 Keys... article and think of ways to incorporate this discussion early on.