When teachers help, students develop the positive attitudes and behaviors that characterize effective learners, they can increase students’ chances of succeeding in school and in life, according to Teaching Adolescents to Become Learners—The Role of Noncognitive Factors in Shaping School Performance: A Critical Literature Review, published by the Consortium on Chicago School research at the University of Chicago. “Students who come to class and complete their work are likely to have developed the kind of work habits they will need in college as well as in the workforce,” the authors write. To that end, this report examines the specific behaviors, skills, attitudes, and strategies that good students rely on “to successfully manage new environments and meet new academic and social demands.”
The report identifies the following five factors as important for success...