(Re)Examining academic risk taking: Conceptual structure, antecedents, and relationship to productive failure

Academic risk taking occurs when students engage in tasks with the potential for failure in order to learn. Among other characteristics, it is related to preferring challenging tasks and a desire to master content or skills. Using the School Failure Tolerance (SFT) measure with three subscales—Affect, Preferred Difficulty and Action—we empirically explored the conceptualization of academic risk taking. In the first study, 236 undergraduate...