Teachers treat resilience under challenge as a teachable skill that current routines and dashboards do little to support¶

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q2 i? Teachers described students freezing or abandoning problems after initial failure and viewed resilience as teachable but unsupported by current tools. → Conrad Borchers 2026

Evidence¶

Conrad Borchers 2026¶

Conrad Borchers. (2026). Framing the 5% Problem: Teachers’ Perspectives on Persistence in Educational Technology. https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.22294 doi:10.48550/arxiv.2606.22294

q2 · i? · qualitative · r3

Resilience and persistence under challenge theme from the workshop's thematic analysis. Teachers described students who "froze, abandoned problems after initial failure" and treated resilience as teachable, yet unsupported by current routines and dashboards.

"Teachers described students who froze, abandoned problems after initial failure, or lacked independent problem- solving strategies. They treated resilience as a teachable skill that current rou- tines and dashboards did little to support."

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