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Abstract

• 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.

Creator

• Nichols, Malachi
• Duckworth, Angela L
• D'Mello, Sidney
• Zamarro, Gema

Date Issued

• 2020-07-01

Academic Affiliation

• Institute of Cognitive Science

Journal Title

• PloS one

Journal Issue/Number

• 7

Journal Volume

• 15

Last Modified

• 2022-05-20

Resource Type

• Article

Rights Statement

• In Copyright

DOI

•  https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0235396

ISSN

• 1932-6203

Language

• English [eng]

License

• Creative Commons BY Attribution 4.0 International

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