Academic Perseverance as a non-cognitive skill: Role of classroom

Abstract

Non-Cognitive Skills are the patterns of thoughts, feelings, personalitycharacteristics of the individuals that may continue to develop throughout their life and which are found valuable in workplace, school and society. It involves skills like persistence, meticulousness, self-discipline, faith, concentration, self-esteem, self-efficacy, etc., which are as important as or even more than the cognitive factors such as intelligence and academic abilities. But several research studies have concluded that along with cognitive factors, non-cognitive skills also matter in influencing student achievement and overall well-being of the student. Academic Perseverance as a non-cognitive variable holds an important role to achieve academic goals by directing academic behaviour. Academic Perseverance is a concept that ,in its most basic form, addresses student effort and the resulting quality of academic behaviour. An academically perseverant student would behave in an engaged, focused, and persistent manner in pursuit of academic goals, in spite of obstacles, failures, adversities and distractions. In this paper, the importance of Academic Perseverance as a non-cognitive skill in education will be reviewed based on available related literature and research findings. This paper is purely based on secondary data.