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Meyer, Jennifer; Jansen, Thorben; Hübner, Nicolas; Lüdtke, Oliver – Educational Psychology Review, 2023
Students' academic achievement is a central predictor of a long list of important educational outcomes, such as access to higher education and socioeconomic success. Prior studies have extensively focused on identifying variables that are related to academic achievement and an important variable in this context appears to be students' personality.…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Personality Traits, Meta Analysis, Elementary School Students
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Ramírez, Rica; Huang, Becky H.; Salazar, Kimberly; Eik, Mari – Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 2023
Purpose: Systematic reviews of bilingual children's reading development are very limited, and none of which solely focus on predictors of reading difficulties among those with developmental language disorder (DLD). The present scoping review fills an important need by analyzing the recent research literature on the reading outcomes of bilingual…
Descriptors: Bilingual Students, Reading Skills, Reading Difficulties, Language Impairments
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Manzano-Sanchez, Harold; Outley, Corliss; Gonzalez, Jorge E.; Matarrita-Cascante, David – Hispanic Journal of Behavioral Sciences, 2018
This review had three aims: (a) examine the relationship between self-efficacy (SE) and academic performance (AP) in Latina/o students, (b) identify the types of measures of SE and AP that have been used, and (c) identify the differences between global and specific measures of SE in predicting academic performance in Latina/o students.…
Descriptors: Self Efficacy, Beliefs, Academic Achievement, Hispanic American Students
Hein, Vanessa; Smerdon, Becky; Sambolt, Megan – College and Career Readiness and Success Center, 2013
The purpose of this brief is to provide information to state, district, and school personnel seeking support to determine whether their students are on a path to postsecondary success. The College and Career Readiness and Success Center (CCRS Center) has received technical assistance requests from a number of states regarding factors that predict…
Descriptors: Predictor Variables, Postsecondary Education, Success, College Readiness
Moore, Malena K. – 2003
It is the responsibility of educational designers and educators to understand the demands of the new information age along with the need for learner-centered approaches to reform education. To date, self-esteem research has focused on traditional, teacher-focused learning environments. This paper will present the findings of a research study whose…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Educational Environment, Middle School Students, Middle Schools
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Minden, Joel; Henry, David B.; Tolan, Patrick H.; Gorman-Smith, Deborah – Professional School Counseling, 2000
Examines the extent to which network unconventionality relates to school violence in an inner-city sample of adolescents. Results suggest that school violence is related to unconventional social network characteristics, independent of the effects of individual deviance. Suggests that attempts to reduce school violence might focus on increasing…
Descriptors: Males, Middle School Students, Middle Schools, Peer Relationship
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Roeser, Robert W.; Eccles, Jacquelynne S.; Sameroff, Arnold J. – Elementary School Journal, 2000
Examined how young adolescents perceived the opportunities provided by middle school teachers and staff and how such opportunities related to changes in academic and social-emotional functioning over time. Found that specific instructional, interpersonal, and organizational dimensions of middle school life were associated in important ways with…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adolescent Attitudes, Early Adolescents, Emotional Development
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Anderman, Lynley H. – Journal of Experimental Education, 2003
Change in middle school students' sense of school belonging was examined in relation to grade point average, motivation variables, and teachers' promotion of mutual respect in classes. Survey data from 618 students collected in three waves during the sixth and seventh grades were submitted to growth curve analysis. On average, students' sense of…
Descriptors: Classroom Environment, Grade Point Average, Middle School Students, Predictor Variables