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Tomasik, Martin J.; Napolitano, Christopher M.; Moser, Urs – Child Development, 2019
Thriving is a developmental process that is shaped by previous and current interactions within developmental contexts. We hypothesized that academic performance in the school context will positively predict thriving in young adulthood. Data of N = 2,043 students from Zurich were assessed with standardized tests in Grades 1, 3, 6, and 9. Results…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Compulsory Education, Young Adults, Individual Development
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Kowaleski-Jones, Lori; Duncan, Greg J. – Child Development, 1999
Used data from National Longitudinal Survey of Youth to model developmental trajectories across middle childhood. Found that individual trajectories were extremely diverse in level and sometimes in slope. Compared to girls, boys had heterogeneous slopes for math and behavior problems. Compared to boys, girls showed a significantly higher degree of…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Behavior Problems, Child Behavior, Elementary Education
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Skinner, Ellen A. – Child Development, 1990
Assessed children's beliefs about the effectiveness of five causes of school success. At the age of 7-8 years, children differentiated the factors into "unknown" and "other"; at 9-10, "other" was differentiated into "internal" and "external"; at 11-12, "internal" was differentiated into…
Descriptors: Ability, Academic Achievement, Age Differences, Attribution Theory