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Ntalianis, Filotheos – Learning and Individual Differences, 2010
The effects of personal characteristics (e.g. personality, aptitude, gender) on student performance, such as Grade Point Average (GPA) and course grades, have been systematically researched, with the emphasis being mainly on outcomes rather than the processes leading to them. The purpose of this paper is to shift the focus to students' perceived…
Descriptors: Grade Point Average, Learning Motivation, Personality Traits, Educational Environment
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Brunner, Martin; Keller, Ulrich; Hornung, Caroline; Reichert, Monique; Martin, Romain – Learning and Individual Differences, 2009
Prior research on the structure of academic self-concepts has demonstrated academic self-concepts to be domain-specific and hierarchically organized, but has largely failed to support the hypothesis that general academic self-concept is at the apex of the hierarchy. The present study investigates a new multidimensional nested-factor model of…
Descriptors: Self Concept, Student Characteristics, Academic Ability, Models