Academic expectations and actual achievements: the roles of hope and effort

Hope, self-efficacy, optimism, and academic achievement: Distinguishing constructs and levels of specificity in predicting college grade-point average

“…In addition, hope maintained a unique, indirect effect on grades through grade expectancy, whereas optimism did not. Levi, Einav, Ziv, Raskind, and Margalit (2013) similarly found that hope indirectly predicted grades through grade expectancies in tenth graders. They further found that hope contributed to grade expectancies, whereas selfefficacy did not.…”

Hope as a Mediator of Loneliness and Academic Self‐efficacy Among Students With and Without Learning Disabilities during the Transition to College

“…Earlier research has demonstrated that hope predicts ASE and academic achievement for college students without LD (Feldman & Kubota, ; Levi, Einav, Raskind, Ziv, & Margalit, ). In addition, studies have reported that adolescents with LD experience lower levels of hope and higher levels of loneliness than their peers (Idan & Margalit, ).…”

Goals and Expectations of Continuation High School Students Transitioning to Postsecondary Education

“…Realistic goal-setting that leads to specific planned behaviors has been found to be effective in achieving intended goals and outcomes (Bates & Anderson, 2014;Dishman et al, 2006). Having hope for the future may affect a student's desire to expend effort to attain future goals and increase the chances of the student reaching these goals (Levi, Einav, Ziv, Raskind, & Margalit, 2014;McCoy & Bowen, 2015). Further efforts to determine the factors underlying student truancy may be necessary to assure effective interventions.…”