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Tyler L. Renshaw; Kelly N. Clark; Caleb D. Farley; Thomas K. Franzmann; Nai-Jiin Yang – School Mental Health, 2024
Youths' subjective well-being (SWB) is theorized to be an integral element of school success. However, little is known about the relative predictive power of different SWB indicators on educational outcomes. Thus, we investigated youths' global and school-specific SWB as predictors of multidimensional educational performance. Participants were…
Descriptors: Well Being, Predictor Variables, Outcomes of Education, Secondary School Students
Cepada, Charry Mae P.; Grepon, Benzar Glen S. – Online Submission, 2020
Educational attainment is an important determinant of one's success. Yet, absenteeism among adolescents jeopardizes chances of achieving their educational goals. Absenteeism can lead to an increasing disinterest in school and the chance of dropping out in school. Thus, this study determined how parental involvement affects absenteeism among 60…
Descriptors: Attendance Patterns, Parent Participation, Middle School Students, Public Schools
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Hamlin, Daniel – American Educational Research Journal, 2021
Nearly 15% of American students are chronically absent from school. To address absenteeism, many states have recently made chronic absence a core component of their school accountability plans. Scholars have theorized that a positive school climate can promote student attendance, but empirical support for this idea is lacking. In this study, the…
Descriptors: Educational Environment, Positive Attitudes, Attendance Patterns, Predictor Variables
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Guill, Karin; Lüdtke, Oliver; Schwanenberg, Jasmin – British Educational Research Journal, 2020
More and more students attend private supplementary tutoring to improve their academic achievement. Private tutoring might be understood as a reaction to insufficient instructional quality in school, especially regarding individual support. However, it might also be possible that parents generally see insufficient grades as an indicator of lacking…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Tutoring, Private Education, Predictor Variables
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Kovac, Velibor Bobo; Cameron, David Lansing; Høigaard, Rune – Educational Psychology, 2016
Understanding the underlying processes influencing college students' academic achievement represents an important goal of educational research. The aim of the present study was to examine the utility of the extended Theory of Planned Behaviour (TPB) and the relative influence of cognitive processes and measures of past behaviour in the prediction…
Descriptors: Behavior Theories, Grades (Scholastic), College Students, Cognitive Processes
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Khechine, Hager; Lakhal, Sawsen – Journal of Information Technology Education: Research, 2018
Aim/Purpose: We aim to bring a better understanding of technology use in the educational context. More specifically, we investigate the determinants of webinar acceptance by university students and the effects of this acceptance on students' outcomes in the presence of personal characteristics such as anxiety, attitude, computer self-efficacy, and…
Descriptors: Technology Uses in Education, Anxiety, Student Attitudes, Self Efficacy
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Lin, Tin-Chun – Journal of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 2016
In this paper we explore and discuss an important research question in higher education--is there a trade-off relationship between in-class and out-of-class efforts for students? We used an empirical model to test the trade-off hypothesis between these two efforts. We identified a trade-off between in-class and out-of-class efforts, especially for…
Descriptors: Investigations, Learner Engagement, Classroom Environment, College Environment
Ohio State Dept. of Education, Columbus. Div. of Early Childhood Education. – 1992
This longitudinal study examined the effects on children of three kindergarten schedules: half day, alternate day, and full day. A secondary purpose was to examine the relationship between preschool attendance and subsequent school performance. Two additional variables thought to be related to school success were also explored: children's gender,…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Access to Education, Alternate Day Schedules, Attendance