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Download full textJose R. Palma; Martin Van Boekel; Ashley S. Hufnagle – Texas Education Review, 2024
The benefits of afterschool activity participation for youth development are well-documented. An interesting question dominating this field is whether there is a threshold at which point participating in too many activities (breadth) and spending too much time in those activities (intensity) is negatively associated with desirable outcomes. Using…
Descriptors: Grade 9, High School Students, Youth Programs, Adolescent Development
Executive Functioning Predicts Academic Achievement in Middle School: A Four-Year Longitudinal Study
Direct linkSamuels, William Ellery; Tournaki, Nelly; Blackman, Sheldon; Zilinski, Christopher – Journal of Educational Research, 2016
Executive functioning (EF) is a strong predictor of children's and adolescents' academic performance. Although research indicates that EF can increase during childhood and adolescence, few studies have tracked the effect of EF on academic performance throughout the middle school grades. EF was measured at the end of Grades 6-9 through 21 teachers'…
Descriptors: Executive Function, Academic Achievement, Longitudinal Studies, Middle School Students
Benner, Aprile D.; Kretsch, Natalie; Harden, K. Paige; Crosnoe, Robert – Developmental Psychology, 2014
Prior research suggests a link between academic performance and alcohol use during adolescence, but the degree to which this association reflects actual protective effects continues to be debated. We investigated the role of genetic factors in the association between academic achievement and adolescent alcohol use and whether achievement might…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adolescents, Drinking, Correlation
Benner, Aprile D. – Journal of School Psychology, 2013
Implications of high school exit examination performance were examined with a sample of 672 racial/ethnic minority students. Exit examination failure in the 10th grade was negatively linked to subsequent grade point average, school engagement, and school belonging one year later, controlling for outcomes prior to taking the examination.…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Grade Point Average, Exit Examinations, Well Being
Wang, Ming-Te; Eccles, Jacquelynne S. – Journal of Research on Adolescence, 2012
The current study used a multidimensional approach to examine developmental trajectories of three dimension of school engagement (school participation, sense of school belonging, and self-regulated learning) from grades 7 to 11 and their relationships to changes in adolescents' academic outcomes over time. The sample includes 1,148 African…
Descriptors: Grade Point Average, School Involvement, Adolescents, Academic Achievement
Ferris, Kaitlyn A.; Oosterhoff, Benjamin; Metzger, Aaron – Journal of Research in Rural Education, 2013
The current study examined associations between organized activity involvement, academic achievement, and problem behavior in a sample of youth from a non-agricultural based rural community (M[subscript age] = 15.26, Age range = 11-19 years, N = 456). Analyses examined whether associations varied as a function of adolescent gender and age.…
Descriptors: Rural Youth, Gender Differences, Correlation, Student Participation
