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Fostering Grit In The University Student, Hope Ballentine, Diana Dunbar
Fostering Grit In The University Student, Hope Ballentine, Diana Dunbar
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Second Annual University of Arkansas Teaching and Learning Symposium: Sharing Teaching Ideas
In the preeminent work on grit, Duckworth et al. (2007) first defined grit as “perseverance and passion for long term-goals.” Evidence is overwhelming that grit is a predictor of success in various arenas of life, often when no other valid predictors can be identified. Grit was the only statistically significant predictor of both academic and clinical success in an Australian study of over 2000 university students (Terry & Peck, 2020). Both job satisfaction and performance are improved with increased grit (Cho & Kim, 2022). Clear evidence that a …