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A Behind-the-Scenes Guide to School-Based Research.

Mind, brain and education : the official journal of the International Mind, Brain, and Education Society

Plummer BD, Galla BM, Finn A, Patrick SD, Meketon D, Leonard J, Goetz C, Fernandez-Vina E, Bartolino S, White RE, Duckworth AL.
PMID: 26779282
Mind Brain Educ. 2014 Mar;8(1):15-20. doi: 10.1111/mbe.12040. Epub 2014 Jan 29.

Schools are an important context for both basic and applied scientific research. Unlike the laboratory, however, the physical and social conditions of schools are not under the exclusive control of scientists. In this article, we liken collecting data in...

Unpacking grit: Motivational correlates of perseverance and passion for long-term goals.

The journal of positive psychology

Von Culin KR, Tsukayama E, Duckworth AL.
PMID: 31404261
J Posit Psychol. 2014;9(4):306-312. doi: 10.1080/17439760.2014.898320. Epub 2014 Mar 27.

In two cross-sectional studies, we explored the motivational orientations correlates of the character strength of grit and its two component facets: perseverance of effort and consistency of interests over time. Specifically, we examined how individual differences in grit are...

A Stitch in Time: Strategic Self-Control in High School and College Students.

Journal of educational psychology

Duckworth AL, White RE, Matteucci AJ, Shearer A, Gross JJ.
PMID: 27158155
J Educ Psychol. 2016 Apr;108(3):329-341. doi: 10.1037/edu0000062.

A growing body of research indicates that self-control is critical to academic success. Surprisingly little is known, however, about the diverse strategies students use to implement self-control or how well these strategies work. To address these issues, we conducted...

True Grit: Trait-level Perseverance and Passion for Long-term Goals Predicts Effectiveness and Retention among Novice Teachers.

Teachers College record (1970)

Robertson-Kraft C, Duckworth AL.
PMID: 25364065
Teach Coll Rec (1970). 2014;116(3).

BACKGROUND/CONTEXT: Surprisingly little progress has been made in linking teacher effectiveness and retention to factors observable at the time of hire. The rigors of teaching, particularly in low-income school districts, suggest the importance of personal qualities that have so...

A Meta-Analysis of the Convergent Validity of Self-Control Measures.

Journal of research in personality

Duckworth AL, Kern ML.
PMID: 21643479
J Res Pers. 2011 Jun 01;45(3):259-268. doi: 10.1016/j.jrp.2011.02.004.

There is extraordinary diversity in how the construct of self-control is operationalized in research studies. We meta-analytically examined evidence of convergent validity among executive function, delay of gratification, and self- and informant-report questionnaire measures of self-control. Overall, measures demonstrated...

Establishing Causality Using Longitudinal Hierarchical Linear Modeling: An Illustration Predicting Achievement From Self-Control.

Social psychological and personality science

Duckworth AL, Tsukayama E, May H.
PMID: 20976121
Soc Psychol Personal Sci. 2010 Oct 01;1(4):311-317. doi: 10.1177/1948550609359707.

The predictive validity of personality for important life outcomes is well established, but conventional longitudinal analyses cannot rule out the possibility that unmeasured third-variable confounds fully account for the observed relationships. Longitudinal hierarchical linear models (HLM) with time-varying covariates...

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Journal of educational psychology

Duckworth AL, Quinn PD, Tsukayama E.
PMID: 24072936
J Educ Psychol. 2012 May 01;104(2):439-451. doi: 10.1037/a0026280.

The increasing prominence of standardized testing to assess student learning motivated the current investigation. We propose that standardized achievement test scores assess competencies determined more by intelligence than by self-control, whereas report card grades assess competencies determined more by...

The Mechanics of Human Achievement.

Social and personality psychology compass

Duckworth AL, Eichstaedt JC, Ungar LH.
PMID: 26236393
Soc Personal Psychol Compass. 2015 Jul;9(7):359-369. doi: 10.1111/spc3.12178.

Countless studies have addressed why some individuals achieve more than others. Nevertheless, the psychology of achievement lacks a unifying conceptual framework for synthesizing these empirical insights. We propose organizing achievement-related traits by two possible mechanisms of action: Traits that...

Do as You're Told! Facets of Agreeableness and Early Adult Outcomes for Inner-City Boys.

Journal of research in personality

Kern ML, Duckworth AL, Urzúa S, Loeber R, Stouthamer-Loeber M, Lynam DR.
PMID: 24311824
J Res Pers. 2013 Dec;47(6). doi: 10.1016/j.jrp.2013.08.008.

With data from the middle cohort of the Pittsburgh Youth Study, a prospective longitudinal study of inner-city boys, we examined whether Big Five agreeableness facets could be reliably recovered in this sample, and whether facets predicted educational, occupational, social,...

Survivor mission: Do those who survive have a drive to thrive at work?.

The journal of positive psychology

Eskreis-Winkler L, Shulman EP, Duckworth AL.
PMID: 24748898
J Posit Psychol. 2014 Jan 01;9(3):209-218. doi: 10.1080/17439760.2014.888579.

Are helping professionals who have experienced the same types of struggles as their clients more engaged at work? In the current investigation, we examine this question in samples of police detectives (with and without a history of violent victimization)...

The Academic Diligence Task (ADT): Assessing Individual Differences in Effort on Tedious but Important Schoolwork.

Contemporary educational psychology

Galla BM, Plummer BD, White RE, Meketon D, D'Mello SK, Duckworth AL.
PMID: 25258470
Contemp Educ Psychol. 2014 Oct 01;39(4):314-325. doi: 10.1016/j.cedpsych.2014.08.001.

The current study reports on the development and validation of the Academic Diligence Task (ADT), designed to assess the tendency to expend effort on academic tasks which are tedious in the moment but valued in the long-term. In this...

Will Not Want: Self-Control Rather than Motivation Explains the Female Advantage in Report Card Grades.

Learning and individual differences

Duckworth AL, Shulman EP, Mastronarde AJ, Patrick SD, Zhang J, Druckman J.
PMID: 25883522
Learn Individ Differ. 2015 Apr 01;39:13-23. doi: 10.1016/j.lindif.2015.02.006.

Girls earn better grades than boys, but the mechanism explaining this gender difference is not well understood. We examined the relative importance of self-control and motivation in explaining the female advantage in grades. In Study 1, we surveyed middle...

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