Academic Tenacity

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Academic Te n a c i t yMindsets and Skills that Promote Long-Term Learning Carol S. Dweck | Gregory M. Walton | Geoffrey L. Cohen Academic Tenacity | 1Table of ContentsIntroduction 2Defining Academic Tenacity 4Measuring Tenacity and Its Effects on achievement 5Mindsets and Goals 5Social Belonging 11Self-Regulation and Self-Control 12Interventions that Improve Academic achievement by Developing Tenacity 14Mindset Interventions 15Social Belonging and Value Affirmation Interventions 17Identity and Self-Relevance Interventions 19Teaching Self-Regulation 21Integrating Curricula with Practices that Promote Academic Tenacity 21How Good Teachers and Schools Foster Academic Tenacity 22Challenge 22Scaffolding 26Belonging 30Endnotes 33The authors would like to acknowledge David Paunesku and David Yeager for their

recognize the importance of non-cognitive factors in achievement both in school and in the labor market.3 These factors also offer promising levers for raising the achievement of underprivileged children and, ultimately, closing achievement gaps based on race and income.4 The research

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