264 research outputs found
When does grit predict job performance?
No full textThe researchers analyze grit as a good predictor for job performance
Grit in Latino middle school students: construct validity and psychometric properties of the short grit scale
No full textGrit, defined as perseverance and passion for long-term goals (Duckworth, Peterson, Matthews, & Kelly, 2007), is a character strength that may be a promising target for improving academic achievement. Despite grit’s popularity and its increasing application to underserved students, there is no published literature examining the psychometric properties of the Short Grit Scale (Grit-S) or validating the construct in underserved student populations. The current study sought to determine whether previous research on the psychometric properties and construct validity of grit replicated in a low-income, majority Latino middle school. To better understand the grit construct, the study also investigated how grit interacts with experience of an academic setback to predict academic achievement. In addition, the study sought to clarify the role social-emotional learning (SEL) skills play in explaining the impact of grit on academic achievement. Students from a large urban middle school completed the self-report Grit-S and teachers completed observational measures of observed student SEL skills. Student demographics and grades data were obtained from the school’s online database. Results indicated that although a two-factor structure (“Interest” and “Effort”) replicated in this sample, the two factors behaved in a manner inconsistent with previous research. The reliability coefficients of the full Grit-S and of each subscale were also very low. Hierarchical regressions showed that the “Interest” factor was a consistent predictor of academic achievement, whereas the “Effort” factor was not. Experiencing an academic setback was found to be a consistent predictor of grades; however, the interaction of grit and setbacks was only significant for models predicting grades in Math and students’ Best subject. Notably, the significant interactions were inconsistent with hypothesized relationships in that higher grit in students who had experienced a setback predicted lower grades. Finally, mediation analyses supported a partial mediation of grit’s impact on academic achievement by SEL skills, which is the first empirical support for how grit operates to impact academic achievement. Results from this study show that more research is needed to clarify the construct validity of grit in disadvantaged, Latino middle school students.M.S.Includes bibliographical referencesby Danielle Ryan Hatchimonj
Got grit? Maybe…
No full textThe constructs that currently animate today’s dispositions movement are grit and growth mindset. However, the evidence for the reliability and instructional uses of such noncognitive factors in K-12 schools -- and of the surveys and tools that attempt to measure them -- is thin. After a look at the “logic of assessment” with its focus on cognition, observation, and interpretation, the author concludes that the noncognitive data and metrics used by reformers to support decisions to group schools by levels of grit or place students in particular interventions to improve mindset must be validated with common sense and a body of technical evidence.</jats:p
Self-efficacy, grit, and rural career aspirations among early career nurses: a repeated cross-sectional study
No full textBackground: Global nursing workforce shortage represents an impediment to the delivery of safe, evidence-based healthcare. Despite collective efforts, a consistent stream of nurses leaving the profession remains, particularly within the first five years of practice, which is exacerbated in rural communities. The aim of the study was to compare self-efficacy, grit, and rural career aspirations among nursing graduates between their second and fourth year of their nursing profession. Methods: As part of a longitudinal investigation, a repeated cross-sectional design was utilised. Participants included, 117 (response rate 52.2%) who completed an online questionnaire 18–24 months after graduating, and 32 participants (response rate of 21.0%) who agree to repeat the questionnaire 36–48 months after graduating. The questionnaire included demographic, employment, and measures examining general and occupational self-efficacy, grit, and rural career aspirations. Results: No differences between general and occupational self-efficacy or grit were identified between second- and fourth-year nurses. In addition, the importance placed on undertaking rural career also remains unchanged. However, a higher proportion of fourth year nurses were more likely to be in management or were considering leaving the profession. Conclusions: This examination of early career nurses, now in their second and fourth-year post-graduation highlights self-efficacy, grit, and rural career aspirations remains stable between two- and four-years following graduation, while nursing in their fourth year were more likely to consider leaving the profession. Nursing retention is a ‘Wicked Problem’ that is unavoidably a complex amalgam of macro, meso and micro factors that we are yet to fully appreciate. © 2024, The Author(s)
What Can Sociology Say About Grit? A Cross-Cultural Exploration of the Relationships between Socioeconomic Status, Sense of Control, and Grit
No full textDespite growing interest from the public, little attention has been directed toward grit in sociology. By disaggregating grit into its component factors (i.e., perseverance of effort and consistency of interest) on the basis of a measurement test, the author examines the potentially contrasting relations of grit to socioeconomic status. Using survey data from the United States and South Korea, the author finds that those with higher socioeconomic status partially translate their structural advantages into grit, particularly into the perseverance-of-effort dimension of grit in South Korea, via their stronger beliefs in personal control over their lives (i.e., sense of control). This study also reveals a negative association between one’s own or parental education and the consistency-of-interest dimension of grit, suggesting that stick-to-it-iveness can be a potential supplementary psychological resource for those who may lack other resources.</p
Grit relationship to student grade point average
No full text1 online resource (i, 33 pages) : illustrations.The importance of choosing students for a specific program has been something many specialized schools struggle with. There is little research completed on the relationship between Grit and GPA on middle school aged students. The author collected data on student grade point averages GPA and Grit score from 10th grade students who were enrolled in a dual college high school program. The top 5 performing students and bottom 5 performing students according to GPA were selected for the study. The researcher was investigating if there was a relationship between student GPA and Grit score. The findings showed there was a relationship between Grit and GPA. [from abstract]SUNY at Fredoni
Image captioning for Brazilian Portuguese using GRIT model
No full textThis work presents the early development of a model of image captioning for
the Brazilian Portuguese language. We used the GRIT (Grid - and Region-based
Image captioning Transformer) model to accomplish this work. GRIT is a
Transformer-only neural architecture that effectively utilizes two visual
features to generate better captions. The GRIT method emerged as a proposal to
be a more efficient way to generate image captioning. In this work, we adapt
the GRIT model to be trained in a Brazilian Portuguese dataset to have an image
captioning method for the Brazilian Portuguese Language.Comment: arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:2207.09666 by other author
Grit: Not Just for Sandpaper An African American RN's Campaign for Success
No full textResearch indicates that when attrition rates are studied, African American students demonstrate the highest percentage among students who leave nursing programs. The majority of employed registered nurses (RN) in the current workforce is predominantly White and there is a need to increase the diversity of RNs in order to mirror current population percentages. In this paper, the author, an African American, will employ the qualitative method of autoethnography to describe her personal traits of resiliency, grit, and sisu and how these traits enabled her to overcome obstacles and challenges throughout her life to become a registered nurse. Her findings indicate that with increased family support, as well as programs that enhance academic support and formal mentoring, the current trend of African American Nursing student attrition rates could be lowered
Grit: Not Just for Sandpaper An African American RN's Campaign for Success
No full textResearch indicates that when attrition rates are studied, African American students demonstrate the highest percentage among students who leave nursing programs. The majority of employed registered nurses (RN) in the current workforce is predominantly White and there is a need to increase the diversity of RNs in order to mirror current population percentages. In this paper, the author, an African American, will employ the qualitative method of autoethnography to describe her personal traits of resiliency, grit, and sisu and how these traits enabled her to overcome obstacles and challenges throughout her life to become a registered nurse. Her findings indicate that with increased family support, as well as programs that enhance academic support and formal mentoring, the current trend of African American Nursing student attrition rates could be lowered
Similarity in functional connectome architecture predicts teenage grit
No full textGrit is a personality trait that encapsulates the tendency to persevere and maintain consistent interest for long-term goals. While prior studies found that grit predicts positive behavioral outcomes, there is a paucity of work providing explanatory evidence from a neurodevelopmental perspective. Based on previous research suggesting the utility of the functional connectome (FC) as a developmental measure, we tested the idea that individual differences in grit might be, in part, rooted in brain development in adolescence and emerging adulthood (N = 64, 11-19 years of age). Our analysis showed that grit was associated with connectome stability across conditions and connectome similarity across individuals. Notably, inter-subject representational similarity analysis revealed that teenagers who were grittier shared similar FC architecture with each other, more so than those with lower grit. Our findings suggest that individuals with high levels of grit are more likely to exhibit a converging pattern of whole-brain functional connectivity, which may underpin subsequent beneficial behavioral outcomes. © The Author(s) 2023. Published by Oxford University Press.11Nsciessciscopu
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