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3 of 3 from Lisa Brown: this paper is from Carlton Fong of the Dana Center and Rose Asera (formerly with Carnegie Foundation)--I think I've shared the link on the RPM wiki before but I hadn't looked at it in a while...

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...

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

Lisa Brown from the Dana Center sent a copy of this article to me in response to my request for more in-depth "white paper" material around the attributes/AYD psychosocial issues...2 more links to follow...