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Direct linkMoghimi, Darya; Van Yperen, Nico W.; Sense, Florian; Zacher, Hannes; Scheibe, Susanne – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2021
Statistics on study disruptions and delays and their negative impact on academic performance call for action-regulation strategies that students can use to manage their performance and well-being. In the present research, we rely on the action-regulation model of selection, optimization, and compensation (SOC), which was developed in the life span…
Descriptors: Grades (Scholastic), Student Satisfaction, Self Efficacy, Self Management
Wolniak, Gregory C.; Muskens, Marjolein – Research in Higher Education, 2021
The study focuses on the phenomenon of "undermatching" in relation to the development of noncognitive attributes during the first year of college. Particular attention is paid to examining the role of first-generation college student status in moderating these relationships. The analyses utilize longitudinal data from the Netherlands (N…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Freshmen, First Generation College Students, Student Motivation
Fokkens-Bruinsma, Marjon; Vermue, Carlien; Deinum, Jan-Folkert; van Rooij, Els – Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, 2021
A successful first year is of vital importance to academic achievement in higher education. How can we identify those students at risk at a very early stage, i.e. even before they have entered university? This study focuses on three pre-university factors, namely academic self-efficacy, self-regulated learning, in terms of autonomous motivation…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, Academic Achievement, Self Efficacy, Learning Strategies
den Boer, Anton W. J. P.; Verkoeijen, Peter P. J. L.; Heijltjes, Anita E. G. – Psychology Learning and Teaching, 2021
Cumulative assessment refers to interspersed testing in which each assessment covers all previous content and the mean assessments' grade weighs in for the final exam grade. The effect of cumulative assessment on motivation and performance might differ between summative (i.e. assessment grades weigh in for the final exam grade) and formative (i.e.…
Descriptors: Formative Evaluation, Summative Evaluation, Experiments, Engineering Education
van Rooij, Els C. M.; Jansen, Ellen P. W. A.; van de Grift, Wim J. C. M. – European Journal of Psychology of Education, 2018
Considering the pivotal role of academic adjustment for student success, it is important to gain insight into how several motivational and behavioural factors affect academic adjustment and the extent to which academic adjustment influences student success. This empirical study investigated how intrinsic motivation, academic self-efficacy,…
Descriptors: Student Adjustment, Success, Student Motivation, Self Efficacy
van Herpen, Sanne G. A.; Meeuwisse, Marieke; Hofman, W. H. Adriaan; Severiens, Sabine E.; Arends, Lidia R. – Educational Research and Evaluation, 2017
Given the large number of dropouts in the 1st year at university, it is important to identify early predictors of 1st-year academic success. The present study (n = 453 first-year students) contributes to literature on the transition from secondary to higher education by investigating how the non-cognitive factors "pre-university" effort…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Freshmen, Predictor Variables, Academic Achievement
