Behavioral grit, but not survey grit, predicts academic resilience: grittier students register smaller score declines during the pandemic¶

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q2 i? Binned scatterplots show a significant positive association between pre-Covid behavioral grit and academic resilience in both math and science. → Chen 2024

Evidence¶

Chen 2024¶

Chen, D. L., Ertac, S., Evgeniou, T., Miao, X., Nadaf, A., & Yilmaz, E. (2024). Grit and academic resilience during the COVID-19 pandemic. npj Science of Learning. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41539-024-00265-3

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Non-parametric binned scatterplots (Figs. 2 and 3) of change in overall test scores against pre-Covid behavioral grit show a significant predictive association for both subjects, and the authors report the pattern indicates the correlation's direction and strength.

"A significant predictive association for behavioral grit can be seen in binned scatterplots in Fig. 2 (math) and Fig. 3 (science), which condense the information from a scatterplot by partitioning the x‐axis into bins and calculating the mean of y within each bin."

Discussion¶

Learner Variables¶

• Personality Traits — predictor: learners who differ on it differ in outcomes

Related Claims¶

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• Machine learning on pre-pandemic platform click data explains up to 77% of the variance in academic resilience — related
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