Teaching Adolescents To Become Learners: The Role of
Noncognitive Factors in Shaping School Performance: A Critical Literature Review is from The University of Chicago Consortium on Chicago School Research.
Teaching adolescents to become learners: The role of
noncognitive factors in shaping school performance — a critical literature review.
The role of
noncognitive factors in shaping school performance: A critical literature review.
Teaching Adolescents To Become Learners The Role of
Noncognitive Factors in Shaping School Performance: A Critical Literature Review
Teaching adolescents to become learners: The role of
noncognitive factors in shaping school performance — A critical literature review.
The background survey will include five core areas — grit, desire for learning, school climate, technology use, and socioeconomic status — of which the first two focus on a student's noncognitive skills, and the third looks at
noncognitive factors in the school.
I also served as Stephanie's teaching fellow this past semester in her Beyond Grit:
Noncognitive Factors in School Success course, which was a great introduction to the HGSE classroom.
To that end, last spring Jones launched a course, Beyond Grit:
Noncognitive Factors in School Success, which seeks to synthesize the varied research and practices.
But for all the discussion of
noncognitive factors in recent years, there has been little conclusive agreement on how best to help young people develop them.
Not exact matches
The particular focus of How Children Succeed was the role that a group of
factors often referred to as
noncognitive or «soft» skills — qualities like perseverance, conscientiousness, self - control, and optimism — play
in the challenges poor children face and the strategies that might help them succeed.
The result was a report titled «Teaching Adolescents to Become Learners,» published
in June 2012, which for the first time represented
noncognitive skills — or «
noncognitive factors,» as the report called them — not as a set of discrete abilities that individual children might somehow master (or fail to master), but as a collection of mindsets and habits and attitudes that are highly dependent on the context
in which children are learning.
Research on how these
noncognitive factors affect learning is
in its infancy, but preliminary findings point toward promising returns.
But what, exactly, are the
noncognitive factors that matter, especially when it comes to college success and a strong start
in adulthood?
In addition, questions about other
noncognitive factors, such as self - efficacy and personal achievement goals, may be included on questionnaires for specific subjects to create content - area measures.
In fact, socioeconomic status is the single largest
factor influencing children's school readiness, according to Inequalities at the Starting Gate: Cognitive and
Noncognitive Gaps among the 2010 — 2011 Kindergarten Classmates.
Education Week reports that starting
in 2017, the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) will include measures of motivation, mindset, and other
noncognitive factors.
For example, Washington's Youth Development Executives of King County and the Road Map Project, as well as All Hands Raised
in the Portland area, have begun to examine positive youth development through the lens of
noncognitive factors as they identify ways that schools, communities, and families can collaborate more intentionally to create supportive learning environments for young people.
These skills and dispositions were highlighted
in Paul Tough's 2012 best - seller, How Children Succeed, and include a domain of social and emotional competencies and attitudes sometimes called
noncognitive factors.