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Rappleye, Jeremy; Komatsu, Hikaru; Uchida, Yukiko; Krys, Kuba; Markus, Hazel – Journal of Education Policy, 2020
Facing increasing critique that PISA focuses too narrowly on cognitive achievement and human/knowledge capital, the OECD has recently shifted some of its focus to student happiness. The 2017 Students' Well-Being report distinguishes between 'happy schools' and 'unhappy schools', showing that among students who combined high performance and life…
Descriptors: Well Being, Achievement Tests, Foreign Countries, International Assessment
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Lam, Kelly Ka Lai; Zhou, Mingming – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2022
This review examined the relations between grit and academic achievement based on a meta-analysis of 137 studies yielding 156 dependent samples (N = 285,331). Using the robust variance estimation, we found that the correlations of overall grit level with academic achievement were generally weak to moderate (weighted r = 0.19). The correlation of…
Descriptors: Personality Traits, Academic Persistence, Academic Achievement, Correlation