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.
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.
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.
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.
But preliminary results already show powerful gap - closing effects for Educare students: If disadvantaged children enter Educare before their first birthday, they usually are, by the first day of kindergarten, essentially caught up with the national average on tests of basic knowledge and language comprehension, as well as on measures
of noncognitive factors like attachment, initiative, and self - control.
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.
These habits
of learning incorporate critical
noncognitive factors, such as academic mindsets and behaviors, and social and emotional competencies that have been shown to have a significant impact on academic success and healthy development.
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.
Education Week reports that starting in 2017, the National Assessment
of Educational Progress (NAEP) will include measures
of motivation, mindset, and other
noncognitive factors.
See why
noncognitive skills are increasingly viewed as important and get the history
of the Big 5
Factors.
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.