Sökning: "academic grades"
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1. Jag vill ha bra betyg : En etnologisk studie om höga skolresultat och högstadieelevers praktiker
Sammanfattning : This is a thesis on how pupils at lower secondary school achieve high grades at schools with higher results than average. The purpose of the study is to analyse and bring attention to the way ideas, practices and conditions interact and facilitate strong achievements among pupils at lower secondary schools. LÄS MER
2. The importance of personality, IQ and learning approaches : predicting academic performance
Sammanfattning : The aim of the present doctoral thesis was to examine to what extent personality traits and approaches to learning contribute to academic performance in upper secondary school (high school), after controlling for the well-known fact that general intelligence accounts for a large part of the variance. The general proposition of the thesis is that personality traits are stable dispositions and therefore predispose an individual to behave or act in a specific manner (Costa & McCrae, 1976). LÄS MER
3. Academic Performance in Swedish Ninth Grade Students Treated for Brain Tumours
Sammanfattning : The overall aim of this thesis was to investigate how children in Sweden treated for brain tumours performed in their ninth year at school compared with matched controls. The studies investigated grades and results from national tests in the theoretical subjects of Swedish, English, and mathematics; grades in the practical and aesthetic subjects of art, crafts, music, home and consumer studies, physical education and health; and the frequency of delayed graduation and qualification for school years 10-12 (corresponding to upper-secondary school or high school). LÄS MER
4. The importance of personality, IQ and learning approaches : predicting academic performance
Sammanfattning : The aim of the present doctoral thesis was to examine to what extent personality traits and approaches to learning contribute to academic performance in upper secondary school (high school), after controlling for the well-known fact that general intelligence accounts for a large part of the variance. The general proposition of the thesis is that personality traits are stable dispositions and therefore predispose an individual to behave or act in a specific manner (Costa & McCrae, 1976). LÄS MER
5. Childhood Self-Regulation, Academic Achievement, and Occupational Attainment
Sammanfattning : The general aim of this thesis was to extend knowledge of the interplay between self-regulation (SR) skills during childhood in relation to academic achievement and later adult educational and occupational attainment. Previous research has shown that cool SR (i.e., cognitive) is more closely linked to academic achievement than hot SR (i. LÄS MER
