Predicting Students' Academic Performance in College Using a New Non-cognitive Measure: An Instrument Design and a Structural Equation Exploration of Some Non-cognitive Attributes and Academic Performance
Year: 2011
Type: article
Abstract: ii ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS vi VITA vii TABLE OF CONTENTS viii List of Tables xii List of Figures xiii CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION 1 Academic Success/Performance in College 2 Background of Study 4 Conventional Correlates of Students‘ Collegian Academic Success 4 Non-cognitive Correlates of Students‘ Collegian Academic Success 7 Rationale of the Study 9 Research Questions 11 Significance of the Study 12 Definition of Terms 14 Research Assumptions 16 Chapter Summary 17 CHAPTER 2: LITERATURE REVIEW 18 Research on cognitive/ academic predictors of academic performance 18 Research on non-cognitive predictors 20 Research on engagement and academic performance 31 Research on designing measures of non-cognitive predictors of students‘ academic performance 37 CHAPTER 3: METHODOLOGY 40
Author: Sui Huang
Institution: The Ohio State University
Language: English
Subfield: Education
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
SDG: Quality education
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2296426289