Thanks to funding from the National Science Foundation, Yu Panglin Charitable Trust, Weiming Education (Hong Kong) Limited, Alvin I.& Peggy S. Brown Family Charitable Foundation, EPIC is dedicated to deepening our understanding of failure and identifying strategies for persisting and triumphing over adversity.
Students’ beliefs that success in science depends on exceptional talent negatively impact their motivation to learn. For example, such beliefs have been shown to be a major factor steering students away from taking science and math courses in high school and college. In the present study, we tested a novel story-based instruction that models how scientists achieve through failures and struggles.