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Samuels, William Ellery; Tournaki, Nelly; Sacks, Stanley; Sacks, JoAnn; Blackman, Sheldon; Byalin, Kenneth; Zilinski, Christopher – European Educational Researcher, 2019
Executive functions (EFs) show promise as important mediators of adolescent academic performance. However, the expense of measuring EFs accurately has restricted most field-based research on them to smaller, non-longitudinal studies of homogeneous populations with specific diagnoses. We therefore monitored the development of 259 diverse, at-risk…
Descriptors: Grade Point Average, Predictor Variables, Executive Function, Adolescents
Ahn, Sunyoung – ProQuest LLC, 2010
The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationships between the perceptions of school membership, risk factors, and school outcomes among a sample of alternative school students. The study subjects were 48 7th-9th graders who were at high risk for school failure because of their serious and chronic behavioral and academic problems. All…
Descriptors: Nontraditional Education, Extracurricular Activities, Suspension, Grade Point Average