Can Grit Be Taught ? Lessons from a Nationwide Field Experiment with Middle-School Students (English)

This paper studies whether a particular socio-emotional skill —grit (the ability to sustain effort and interest toward long-term goals)—can be cultivated and how this affects student learning. The paper implements, as a randomized controlled trial, a nationwide low-cost intervention designed to foster grit and self-regulation among sixth and seventh grade students in primary schools in North Macedonia (about 33,000 students across 350 schools). Students...
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Santos,Indhira Vanessa; Petroska-Beska,Violeta; Amaro Da Costa Luz Carneiro,Pedro Manuel; Eskreis-Winkler,Lauren; Munoz Boudet,Ana Maria; Berniell,Ines; Krekel,Christian; Arias,Omar; Duckworth,Angela Lee.

Can Grit Be Taught ? Lessons from a Nationwide Field Experiment with Middle-School Students (English). Impact Evaluation series|Policy Research working paper|no. WPS 9831 Washington, D.C. : World Bank Group. http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/609711635857388920

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