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Burger, Andri; Naudé, Luzelle – Social Psychology of Education: An International Journal, 2019
The aim of this study was to investigate the predictors of academic success of South African students. The study focused on 164 first to fourth year students. The extent to which students' grade 12 performance, the type of high school they attended and their academic self-concepts contributed to their academic success during the entry and…
Descriptors: Predictor Variables, Academic Achievement, Success, Grade 12
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Magano, Meahabo Dinah; Berman, Ashley Ita – Education as Change, 2016
This study was contextualised within the Life Orientation subject of "Self in Society". It acknowledges that the present time is uniquely significant in South African history as the generation of youth leaving school are now considered "born frees". This generation is considered to be free from the first-hand trauma that was…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Racial Segregation, Grade 11, Females
Cranfield, Corvell – ProQuest LLC, 2013
The construct of mathematical identity has recently been widely used in mathematics education with the intention to understand how students relate to and engage (or disengage) with mathematics. Grootenboer and Zevenbergen (2008) define mathematical identity as the students' knowledge, abilities, skills, beliefs, dispositions, attitudes and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Grade 11, Identification (Psychology), Mathematics Instruction
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Wild, Lauren G.; Flisher, Alan J.; Bhana, Arvin; Lombard, Carl – Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 2004
Background: This study investigated associations among adolescents' self-esteem in 6 domains (peers, school, family, sports/athletics, body image and global self-worth) and risk behaviours related to substance use, bullying, suicidality and sexuality. Method: A multistage stratified sampling strategy was used to select a representative sample of…
Descriptors: Bullying, Self Concept, Suicide, Adolescents