Can Grit Be Taught? Lessons from a Nationwide Field Experiment with Middle-School Students
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,...
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| Format: | Working Paper |
| Language: | English |
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2021
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/undefined/609711635857388920/Can-Grit-Be-Taught-Lessons-from-a-Nationwide-Field-Experiment-with-Middle-School-Students http://hdl.handle.net/10986/36482 |