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The Moderating Effects of Psychosocial Factors on Achievement Gains: A Longitudinal Study
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Kuo, Yi-Lung; Casillas, Alex; Allen, Jeff; Robbins, Steve – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2021
The moderating effects of motivation, social control, and self-regulation in predicting academic achievement were examined in Grades 11-12 for 3,281 seventh through nine graders. Standardized assessments of college readiness and student self-reported measures of psychosocial factors were used in the study. The results showed that females in Grades…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Gains, Metacognition, Prediction
What Boosts Talent Development? Examining Predictors of Academic Growth in Secondary School among Academically Advanced Youth across 21 Years
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Wai, Jonathan; Allen, Jeff – Gifted Child Quarterly, 2019
We examined 482,418 students who took the ACT in the seventh grade and again in high school, taking an exploratory analytic approach to examine academic growth trends from 1996 to 2017. Predictors included sociodemographics, interests, high school (HS) characteristics, HS coursework and GPA, and extracurriculars, which explained 25% of the…
Descriptors: Talent Development, Predictor Variables, Achievement Gains, Secondary School Students