Validation of survey effort measures of grit and self-control in a sample of high school students

Personality traits such as grit and self-control are important determinants of success in life outcomes. However, most measures of these traits, which rely on self-reports, might be biased when used for the purpose of evaluating education policies or interventions. Recent research has shown the pote...

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Autores principales: Zamarro, Gema, Nichols, Malachi, Duckworth, Angela L., D’Mello, Sidney K.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7329102/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32609785
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0235396
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description Personality traits such as grit and self-control are important determinants of success in life outcomes. However, most measures of these traits, which rely on self-reports, might be biased when used for the purpose of evaluating education policies or interventions. Recent research has shown the potential of survey effort—in particular, item non-response and careless answering—as a proxy measure of these traits. The current investigation uses a dataset of high school seniors (N = 513) to investigate survey effort measures in relationship with teacher reports, performance task measures, high school academic outcomes, and college attendance. Our results show promise for use of survey effort as proxy measures of grit and self-control.
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spelling pubmed-73291022020-07-14 Validation of survey effort measures of grit and self-control in a sample of high school students Zamarro, Gema Nichols, Malachi Duckworth, Angela L. D’Mello, Sidney K. PLoS One Research Article Personality traits such as grit and self-control are important determinants of success in life outcomes. However, most measures of these traits, which rely on self-reports, might be biased when used for the purpose of evaluating education policies or interventions. Recent research has shown the potential of survey effort—in particular, item non-response and careless answering—as a proxy measure of these traits. The current investigation uses a dataset of high school seniors (N = 513) to investigate survey effort measures in relationship with teacher reports, performance task measures, high school academic outcomes, and college attendance. Our results show promise for use of survey effort as proxy measures of grit and self-control. Public Library of Science 2020-07-01 /pmc/articles/PMC7329102/ /pubmed/32609785 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0235396 Text en © 2020 Zamarro et al http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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