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Grit and academic resilience during the COVID-19 pandemic

dc.contributor.coauthorChen, Daniel L.
dc.contributor.coauthorEvgeniou, Theodoros
dc.contributor.coauthorMiao, Xin
dc.contributor.coauthorNadaf, Ali
dc.contributor.departmentDepartment of Economics
dc.contributor.kuauthorErtaç, Seda
dc.contributor.kuauthorYılmaz, Emrah
dc.contributor.schoolcollegeinstituteCollege of Administrative Sciences and Economics
dc.date.accessioned2025-03-06T20:59:49Z
dc.date.issued2024
dc.description.abstractGrit, a non-cognitive skill that indicates perseverance and passion for long-term goals, has been shown to predict academic achievement. This paper provides evidence that grit also predicts student outcomes during the challenging period of the Covid-19 pandemic. We use a unique dataset from a digital learning platform in the United Arab Emirates to construct a behavioral measure of grit. We find that controlling for baseline achievement, students who were grittier according to this measure before the pandemic, register lower declines in math and science scores during the coronavirus period. Using machine learning, behavioral data obtained from the platform prior to the pandemic can explain 77% of the variance in academic resilience. A survey measure of grit coming from the same students, on the other hand, does not have significant predictive power over performance changes. Our findings have implications for interventions on non-cognitive skills, as well as how data from digital learning platforms can be used to predict student behavior and outcomes, which we expect will be increasingly relevant as AI-based learning technologies become more common.
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dc.description.indexedbyScopus
dc.description.indexedbyPubMed
dc.description.publisherscopeInternational
dc.description.sponsoredbyTubitakEuN/A
dc.identifier.doi10.1038/s41539-024-00265-3
dc.identifier.eissn2056-7936
dc.identifier.issue1
dc.identifier.quartileQ1
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dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.1038/s41539-024-00265-3
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14288/27782
dc.identifier.volume9
dc.identifier.wos1311989000001
dc.keywordsGrit
dc.keywordsAcademic resilience
dc.keywordsCOVID-19 pandemic
dc.keywordsStudent motivation
dc.keywordsDistance learning
dc.keywordsPsychological adaptability
dc.keywordsEducational outcomes
dc.keywordsMental health
dc.keywordsHigher education
dc.keywordsLearning challenges
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherNature Portfolio
dc.relation.ispartofnpj Science of Learning
dc.subjectEducation and educational research
dc.subjectNeurosciences
dc.subjectPsychology, experimental
dc.titleGrit and academic resilience during the COVID-19 pandemic
dc.typeJournal Article
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local.contributor.kuauthorErtaç, Seda
local.contributor.kuauthorYılmaz, Emrah
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