Measuring and Improving Academic Grit in First-Year Students 2013 is a webinar that covers topics such as:
- Facilitating discussions with first-year students on their assessment results
- Connecting non-cognitive indicators to first-year student retention
- Improving first-year students’ skill levels
- Sample student profiles
- Using effective instructional strategies
- Helping students create an educational action plan based on their strengths and weaknesses
- Implementing and using the plan
- Developing the plan
- Sample action plan
- Final thoughts and Q&A
Measuring and Improving Academic Grit in First-Year Students 2013 brings together:
- Academic support professionals
- Student affairs professionals
- Academic advisors
- Facilitators of first-year student programs
- Student retention coordinators
