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Klassen, Robert M.; Kuzucu, Elcin – Educational Psychology, 2009
This article presents a study of academic procrastination and associated motivation variables in 508 adolescents from a general secondary school in central Turkey. Girls reported higher levels of self-efficacy for self-regulation and predicted higher Turkish grades than boys, but there was no difference in levels of procrastination. Academic…
Descriptors: Self Efficacy, Student Motivation, Adolescents, Foreign Countries
Center on Education Policy, Washington, DC. – 2000
Noting that many students do just enough schoolwork to get by and fail to see the connection between learning in school and success in adult life, this brochure encourages parents to explain the benefits of studying hard to their children. The brochure contains facts parents can use to explain the benefits to their children and suggests things…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adolescents, Outcomes of Education, Parent Student Relationship
Heacox, Diane – 1991
Not all children can or should be straight-A students, as everyone differs in their abilities and interests, but all children have the potential to learn and to personally succeed in school. This guide describes a step-by-step program for intervening with students who are underachievers and for promoting student success. The guide provides…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adolescents, Attitude Change, Change Strategies