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Angela Duckworth
Research Psychologist | Class of 2013
Transforming our understanding of the roles that grit and self-control play in educational achievement.


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Title
Research Psychologist
Affiliation
University of Pennsylvania
Location
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Age
43 at time of award
Area of Focus
Psychology and Cognitive Science
Website
angeladuckworth.com
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Published September 25, 2013
ABOUT ANGELA'S WORK
Angela Duckworth is a psychologist whose studies are clarifying the role that intellectual strengths and personality traits play in educational achievement. Duckworth’s work primarily examines two traits that she demonstrates predict success in life: grit—the tendency to sustain interest in and effort toward long-term goals—and self-control—the voluntary regulation of behavioral, emotional, and attentional impulses. A major difference between the two qualities is that grit equips individuals to pursue especially challenging aims over years and even decades, while self-control operates at a more micro timescale in the battle against what could be referred to as “hourly temptations.”

In her early work, Duckworth and colleagues devised empirical measures of grit and self-control in both children and adults and established their predictive validity for a number of dimensions of success. They found that these traits predict objectively measured success outcomes, even when controlling for cognitive ability. For example, in prospective longitudinal studies, grit predicts final ranking at the Scripps National Spelling Bee, persistence at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, and graduation from Chicago public high schools over and beyond standardized achievement test scores; likewise, self-control predicts report card grades and improvements in report card grades over time better than measured intelligence.

More recently, in pioneering research showing that children can learn and practice strategies for internalizing self-control, Duckworth has turned intuitions about self-regulation into scientifically informed, highly practical approaches to teaching and learning. Currently working to develop interventions that foster self-control in children and implement her research in real-world situations, Duckworth is providing an alternative to the focus on cognitive skills now dominant in American education practice and contributing significantly to a reevaluation of education policies in the United States.

BIOGRAPHY
Angela Duckworth received an A.B. (1992) from Harvard College, an M.Sc. (1996) from the University of Oxford, and a Ph.D. (2006) from the University of Pennsylvania. She taught math and science at the high school level prior to joining the faculty of the University of Pennsylvania in 2007, where she is currently an associate professor in the Department of Psychology. Her articles have appeared in such publications as PNAS, the Journal of Educational Psychology, Psychological Science, and the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.



安吉拉-达克沃斯
研究心理学家 | 2013级
改变我们对勇气和自制力在教育成就中的作用的理解。


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标题
研究心理学家
工作单位
宾夕法尼亚大学
工作地点
费城，宾夕法尼亚州
年龄
获奖时43岁
重点领域
心理学和认知科学
网站
angeladuckworth.com
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发表于2013年9月25日
关于安吉拉的工作
安吉拉-达克沃斯是一位心理学家，她的研究阐明了智力优势和人格特质在教育成就中的作用。达克沃斯的工作主要是研究她所证明的预测人生成功的两种特质：勇气--保持对长期目标的兴趣和努力的倾向，以及自我控制--对行为、情绪和注意力冲动的自愿调节。这两种品质之间的一个主要区别是，勇气使个人有能力在数年甚至数十年内追求特别具有挑战性的目标，而自制力则在更微观的时间尺度上与可称为 "每小时诱惑 "的东西作斗争。

在她的早期工作中，达克沃斯及其同事设计了对儿童和成人的勇气和自制力的经验性测量，并建立了它们对成功的一些维度的预测效力。他们发现，即使在控制认知能力的情况下，这些特质也能预测客观衡量的成功结果。例如，在前瞻性的纵向研究中，勇气预测了斯克里普斯全国拼写大赛的最终排名、美国西点军校的坚持率以及芝加哥公立高中的毕业率，超过了标准化的成绩测试分数；同样，自我控制能力预测了成绩单上的成绩，并且随着时间的推移，成绩单上的成绩改善比测量的智力更好。

最近，在开创性的研究中，表明儿童可以学习和练习自我控制的内化策略，达克沃斯将关于自我调节的直觉转化为有科学依据的、高度实用的教学和学习方法。目前，达克沃斯正致力于开发促进儿童自我控制的干预措施，并在现实世界中实施她的研究，为目前在美国教育实践中占主导地位的认知技能提供了另一种选择，并为重新评估美国的教育政策作出了重大贡献。

个人简历
安吉拉-达克沃斯在哈佛学院获得学士学位（1992年），在牛津大学获得理学硕士学位（1996年），并在宾夕法尼亚大学获得博士学位（2006年）。在2007年加入宾夕法尼亚大学的教师队伍之前，她在高中阶段教授数学和科学，目前是心理学系的副教授。她的文章发表在PNAS、《教育心理学杂志》、《心理科学》和《人格与社会心理学杂志》等刊物上。