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	Podcast:		UC Science Today
	Episode:		What cognitive qualities spell academic success in schoolchildren?
	Category:		Science & Medicine
	Duration:		00:01:03
	Publish Date:		2016-06-22 19:00:00
	Description:		What qualities spell academic success in schoolchildren? To answer this question, neuroscientist Fumiko Hoeft of the University of California, San Francisco is looking at a mentoring program for children with learning disabilities such as ADHD, and how certain traits may play into the educational process. The program’s goal is to develop resilience and better learning practices in its students. "We’re doing a study validating these mentoring programs, and see which aspects of resilience might we be able to promote. Motivation, grit, mindset – these are all concepts that are very popular in education right now, on how to raise a successful child. So people have focused largely on academic achievement – reading, language arts, science. math. But now there’s an increased awareness that without motivation or without resilience and perseverance that your child is not going to succeed, even though their IQ might be high or their test scores might be initially high." The hope is to inspire a nation-wide evaluation of these types of mentoring programs and their impact on learning.
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