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Aldo Ramirez-Arellano – SAGE Open, 2024
Several investigations have focused on the relationship between personality and learning performance. However, the relationships among personality traits, motivation, emotional and behavioral engagement, and metacognitive-cognitive strategies remain unexplored. This research introduces a model based on a personality system set comprising…
Descriptors: Personality Traits, Student Motivation, Learner Engagement, Metacognition
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Conrad, Nicole; Patry, Marc W. – International Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 2012
Previous research has established that a relationship exists between the personality trait of conscientiousness and academic achievement. The current study extends prior research by using a path analysis model to explore various proximal traits that may mediate this relationship in a sample of two hundred and twenty three undergraduate university…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Personality Traits, Path Analysis, Undergraduate Students
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Ackerman, Phillip L.; Kanfer, Ruth; Beier, Margaret E. – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2013
Prediction of academic success at postsecondary institutions is an enduring issue for educational psychology. Traditional measures of high-school grade point average and high-stakes entrance examinations are valid predictors, especially of 1st-year college grades, yet a large amount of individual-differences variance remains unaccounted for.…
Descriptors: Cognitive Ability, Gender Differences, Academic Achievement, Educational Psychology