Gender, previous knowledge, personality traits and subject-specific motivation as predictors of students’ math grade in upper-secondary school

Peklaj, Cirila; Podlešek, Anja; Pečjak, Sonja

doi:10.1007/s10212-014-0239-0

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“…Volitional strategies are activities which help students actively direct and regulate the effort to achieve certain goals (Peklaj et al, 2015). They preserve the intention of learning and affect the level of effort and persistence in learning, and enable students to finish their tasks despite the obstacles that might come in the way (Corno, 2001).…”

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“…They both have important impact on students' success in all four years of schooling, as well as in the national final exam ("matura"), which represents the admission criterion for further schooling. It is therefore important to understand different factors (personality and motivational) that affect the students' achievement in math and L1 and may help to improve it (Peklaj, Podlesek, & Pečjak, 2015).…”

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“…To a far lesser extent, these variables were investigated in upper secondary education students (Peklaj et al, 2015), and even then in the final years (Shams et al, 2011;Vasalampi et al, 2014). Therefore, our sample comprised students from the first year of general upper secondary school.…”

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“…Knowing the coexisting effects of personality and motivational factors on students' academic achievement enables successful early interventions (Peklaj et al, 2015).…”

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The Role of Personality and Subject-Specific Motivation in Students' Achievement in Math and Mother Tongue

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Peklaj

2016

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The aim of the study was to examine and to compare the relationships of different personality traits, subject-specific motivational dimensions and students' achievement in math and mother tongue in general upper secondary education, as well as how these variables predict their achievement. A total of 397 students attending the first year of general upper secondary education in Slovenia participated in the study. Different measures were used to assess students' personality traits, subject-specific interest, self-efficacy, volitional strategies and final grades in math and mother tongue. The results of the research showed different patterns of achievement predictors in both subjects and differences in the predictive power of included variables according to subjects. The included variables predicted 18% of variance in the Slovene language and 31% of variance in math. In both subjects, achievement was significantly positively predicted by self-efficacy and interest, and significantly negatively predicted by energy and procrastination. In math, agreeableness was also found as a significant negative predictor, and in Slovene language conscientiousness and immediate action were found as positive predictors of students' achievement. Implications of the study's findings are also discussed.

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“…Knowing the coexisting effects of personality and motivational factors on students' academic achievement enables successful early interventions (Peklaj et al, 2015).…”

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confidence: 99%

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The Role of Personality and Subject-Specific Motivation in Students' Achievement in Math and Mother Tongue

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Peklaj

2016

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“…El objetivo fundamental es comprender, aprender, dominar la materia. Se presenta un deseo de mejorar y aumentar el conocimiento y la comprensión de la realidad a través del esfuerzo para conseguir el aprendizaje (Fenollar, Román y Cuestas, 2007;Peklaj, Podlesek y Pečjak, 2015).…”

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Relación entre perfil motivacional y rendimiento académico en Educación Secundaria Obligatoria

Rodríguez-Rodríguez

Rosquete

2018

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Este estudio analiza las diferencias de las metas académicas en estudiantes de Educación Secundaria Obligatoria en función del curso, e identifi ca los perfi les motivacionales y su relación con el rendimiento académico en Lengua Castellana y Matemáticas. Mediante un muestreo aleatorio por conglomerados se seleccionó una muestra de 596 estudiantes escolarizados en centros públicos. Los resultados mostraron que existían diferencias signifi cativas en las puntuaciones medias de las metas académicas según el curso. Asimismo, se encontró que la motivación estaba determinada por tres tipos de perfi les motivacionales, los cuales se relacionaban con distintos niveles de rendimiento académico en Lengua y Matemáticas.

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Impacts of an AI-based chabot on college students’ after-class review, academic performance, self-efficacy, learning attitude, and motivation

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Gender, previous knowledge, personality traits and subject-specific motivation as predictors of students’ math grade in upper-secondary school

Cited by 9 publications

References 46 publications

The Role of Personality and Subject-Specific Motivation in Students' Achievement in Math and Mother Tongue

The Role of Personality and Subject-Specific Motivation in Students' Achievement in Math and Mother Tongue

Relación entre perfil motivacional y rendimiento académico en Educación Secundaria Obligatoria

Impacts of an AI-based chabot on college students’ after-class review, academic performance, self-efficacy, learning attitude, and motivation

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