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Draft being. For example, perseverance may be in the students’ best interest when mastery-oriented goals are emphasized, but it may be detrimental under some conditions. Recommendation 13: Researchers should investigate systematically the different reasons for demonstrating grit and potential benefits and costs in learning environments with different goal structures. Potential risks should be explored. Need for Support for Programmatic and Multidisciplinary Research Portfolios Given these research needs, it will be important to invest in a programmatic and multidisciplinary portfolios of research geared to making quick advances in the field’s understanding of how to promote these qualities in a wide diversity of settings. The researchers, practitioners, and policymakers we interviewed all indicated the need for a broad spectrum of mutually informing research. The expert informants emphasized the need for research to be multidisciplinary and translational with an eye toward transforming practice in the classroom. Effective research and development in this area will require collaborations among experts in theory, practice, research methods, technology, and assessment. Research should also leverage the vast practical wisdom of expert educators. Informants talked about creating ecosystems of innovation and networks of programs that could unify approaches and allow knowledge to accumulate. Conclusion 14: Researchers, practitioners, and policymakers indicated the need for a broad spectrum of multidisciplinary research on important noncognitive student competencies. Recommendation 14: Foundations and federal agencies should invest in programmatic portfolios of research that investigate mutually informing research questions spanning the range from basic theory, to intervention and evaluation research, to assessment research. Portfolios should leverage the capacities of multidisciplinary teams and program networks. Moving Forward In this brief, we have investigated grit, tenacity, and perseverance—essential to accomplish success in school and beyond. This is an important and exciting time for the field to stop and take stock of this quickly growing aspect of education with a high potential and promise for significantly increasing success for all students. Findings across interviews with key informants and a broad review of the research literature indicate that there is a strong theoretical and practical base for making powerful and impactful advances in the field. 94
Draft Appendix: Expert Informants for the Brief 1. Mitch Brenner, KIPP Charter Schools 2. Denise Brosseau, Well-Connected Leader 3. Shaundra Daily, Clemson University 4. Ed Dieterle, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation 5. Angela Duckworth, University of Pennsylvania 6. Carol Dweck, Stanford University 7. John Easton, Institute for Educational Sciences 8. Camille Farrington, University of Chicago 9. Maria Ferguson, George Washington University 10. David Gibson, simSchool 11. Katie Hong, the Raikes Foundation 12. Mayme Hostetter, Relay Graduate School of Education 13. Lia Izenberg, College Track 14. Nancy Kober, George Washington University 15. Janet Kolodner, the National Science Foundation 16. Marcia Linn, University of California at Berkeley 17. Bob Mislevy, Educational Testing Service 18. Dominic Randolph, Riverdale Country School 19. Diane Stark Rentner, George Washington University 20. Katie Salen, Institute of Play 21. Laurie Schreiner, Azusa Pacific University 22. Constance Steinkuehler, University of Wisconsin at Madison 23. Deborah Stipek, Stanford University 24. Paul Tough, author of How Children Succeed: Grit, Curiosity and the Hidden Power of Character 25. Ash Vasudeva, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation 95
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