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Appendices: Failures, Errors And Mistakes: A Systematic Review Of The Literature, Amber Simpson, Adam V. Maltese, Alice Anderson, Euisuk Sung

Teaching, Learning and Educational Leadership Faculty Scholarship

Terms such as failure, mistakes, errors, obstacles, and struggle are used interchangeably, but each carry different connotations and discipline-specific meanings. Reactions to experiencing a failure can range as well, from being seen as having educative value to be debilitating. These reactions are based on criteria like environment, prior experiences and individual characteristics, to name a few. The purpose of this chapter is to synthesize and clarify how these terms are articulated and utilized in research studies and commentaries published between 1970 and 2017. Through a systematic literature review, we will discuss similarities and differences in how researchers defined these terms, …