Academic perseverance can be described as the ability to persist and keep working hard to achieve success in academic settings. It means not giving up, even when faced with challenges or setbacks, and continuing to strive for educational goals.
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They went on to identify a phenomenon they
called academic perseverance — the tendency to maintain positive academic behaviors despite setbacks.
After implementing Learner - Centered Teaching, schools report improved attendance, course completion rates, and GPAs; increased self - management, better relationship skills, and improved decision - making; and
stronger academic perseverance.
Conventional high school curricula have nearly always focused on content knowledge and academic proficiency, but a growing body of research highlights specific noncognitive factors — such
as academic perseverance and social skills — as pivotal to student learning and success inside the classroom and out.1 Developing these characteristics is especially important for students who have struggled in traditional academic settings in the past.
But unlike those personality traits, which psychologists have shown to be mostly stable over time, a student's
academic perseverance, according to Farrington, is highly dependent on context.
Over time, students with a growth mindset develop more positive attitudes and beliefs about themselves as learners, which can increase
their academic perseverance and prompt them to engage in productive academic behaviors.
Students develop positive attitudes and beliefs about themselves as learners that increase
their academic perseverance and prompt them to engage in productive academic behaviors.
This work argues the importance of the noncognitive for student life outcomes, reviews the little we know about how to improve student
academic perseverance and mindset, and raises questions about our nation's current measures of teacher effectiveness.
The results reported by independent research firm, Compass Consulting, show that the Connect with Kids program improves student behavior in significant and important ways across multiple character skills, including teasing and bullying behaviors, cheating and lying, respect for classmates and teachers, violence prevention, and
academic perseverance.