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Direct linkKuo, 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
Download full textAllen, Jeff; Ndum, Edwin; Mattern, Krista – ACT, Inc., 2017
We derived an index of high school academic rigor by optimizing the prediction of first-year college GPA based on high school courses taken, grades, and indicators of advanced coursework. Using a large data set (n~108,000) and nominal parameterization of high school course outcomes, the high school academic rigor (HSAR) index capitalizes on…
Descriptors: Educational Quality, Difficulty Level, Academic Standards, College Freshmen
