Jalal, M., & Anis, H. (2022, August), The role of students’ grit and goal orientation in predicting their academic success in authentic learning environments  Paper presented at 2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Minneapolis, MN. 10.18260/1-2--41082

\bibitem{asee_peer_41082}
  Jalal, M., \& Anis, H. (2022, August), \emph{The role of students’ grit and goal orientation in predicting their academic success in authentic learning environments}
  Paper presented at 2022 ASEE Annual Conference \& Exposition, Minneapolis, MN.
  10.18260/1-2--41082

Mohamed Jalal and Hanan Anis.  "The role of students’ grit and goal orientation in predicting their academic success in authentic learning environments".  2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Minneapolis, MN, 2022, August.  ASEE Conferences, 2022.  https://peer.asee.org/41082 Internet.  29 Apr, 2025

\bibitem{asee_peer_41082}
  Mohamed Jalal and Hanan Anis.
  "The role of students’ grit and goal orientation in predicting their academic success in authentic learning environments".
  \emph{2022 ASEE Annual Conference \& Exposition, Minneapolis, MN, 2022, August}.
  ASEE Conferences, 2022.
  https://peer.asee.org/41082 Internet.  29 Apr, 2025

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TY  - CPAPER
AB  - The recent trend of opening makerspaces on-campus in engineering schools is encouraging educators to integrate making projects and activities to the engineering curricula. Making projects and activities offer engineering educators an opportunity to situate their students in authentic learning experiences. This article explores the impact of two non-cognitive measures, grit and goal orientation, over and beyond a student’s Big-Five personality traits on their academic success and level of contribution to their team’s project in cornerstone design courses based on making projects. Grit, a non-cognitive ability, has been found to correlate with academic achievement, conscientiousness, life-satisfaction, happiness and self-control. There remains a large research gap related to the construct of grit and how it affects different groups at different developmental level. Students’ academic success is assessed using their final marks and their level of contribution to their team project was assessed using peer assessment in two cornerstone design courses. Results suggest there that only the subdimension of grit: perseverance of efforts was a significant predictor to students’ academic success. However, neither grit nor its two subdimensions predicted students’ level of contribution to their team’s project. Moreover, students’ adoption of a learning goal orientation positively predicted students’ academic success but had no impact on students’ level of contribution to their team’s project.
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