scholarly journals Variables that Predict Academic Achievement in the Spanish Compulsory Secondary Educational System: A Longitudinal, Multi-Level Analysis

2008 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 400-413 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elena Martín ◽  
Rosario Martínez-Arias ◽  
Alvaro Marchesi ◽  
Eva M. Pérez
Keyword(s):  
Academic Achievement ◽  
Learning Strategies ◽  
Cognitive Abilities ◽  
School Students ◽  
Predictive Capacity ◽  
Institutional Variables ◽  
System A ◽  
Multi Level ◽  
Sociocultural Background ◽  
Level Analysis

This article presents a study whose objective was to identify certain personal and institutional variables that are associated with academic achievement among Spanish, secondary school students, and to analyze their influence on the progress of those students over the course of that stage of their education. In order to do this, a longitudinal, multi-level study was conducted in which a total of 965 students and 27 different schools were evaluated in Language, Math and Social Science at three different times (beginning, middle and end of the period). The results show progress in all the schools and in all areas. As for the personal, student variables, the longitudinal, HLM analyses confirmed the importance of sex and sociocultural background and, distinguishing it from other studies, also the predictive capacity of meta-cognitive abilities and learning strategies on success in school. On the institutional level, the school climate and teachers' expectations of their students were the most relevant of the variables studied. The size of the school, the percentage of students who repeat grades, and the leadership of the administration also explained a portion of the variance in some areas.

scholarly journals Effect of Brain-Based Learning Strategies on Secondary School Students’ Academic Achievement in Federal Capital Territory, Abuja, Nigeria

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (3) ◽  
pp. 145-156
Author(s):  
Angela Orengwu Okatahi ◽  
Hosea Abalaka Apeh ◽  
Omolara Ayoka Iyiegbuniwe
Keyword(s):  
Academic Achievement ◽  
Secondary School ◽  
Learning Strategies ◽  
Secondary School Students ◽  
Learning Strategy ◽  
School Students ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
Quasi Experimental ◽  
Good Nutrition ◽  
Brain Based Learning

The study was on the effect Brain-Based Learning Strategies on the academic achievement of secondary school students in Abuja, Nigeria. The pretest post-test Quasi Experimental Research design was used with a sample of 142 Senior Secondary School Students drawn from two schools. Two intact classes were randomly selected from each school. Data for the study was sourced using the Economics Achievement Test (EAT). The hypothesis was tested at a significant level of 0.05 using ANCOVA. The findings revealed a significant difference in the academic achievement with mean difference of 15.82 in favor of the Experimental Group. The study concluded that Brain-based learning strategies have significant effect on students’ academic achievement as the result indicated that the effect of the treatment, (brain-based learning strategy) was significantly positive on students’ academic achievement in Economics. The study recommended that teachers should adopt the Brain-based learning strategies in teaching Economics by providing a relaxed environment with low threat, good nutrition, physical exercise, movement, drama, drinking of water before and during lessons.

Understanding the Multi-level Interactions Between Physical Environment and Neighborhood Characteristics in Assessing Vulnerability to Crime in Micro-places

2021 ◽  
pp. 001112872110359
Author(s):  
Marco Dugato
Keyword(s):  
Physical Environment ◽  
Empirical Test ◽  
Neighborhood Characteristics ◽  
Large Urban Area ◽  
Predictive Capacity ◽  
Interaction Terms ◽  
Crime Risk Assessment ◽  
Multi Level ◽  
Crime Risk ◽  
Level Analysis

Spatial crime risk assessment is based on the identification of the environmental conditions that could facilitate crime. Previous applications of this approach mainly rely on single-level analyses neglecting that different contextual factors are likely to influence crime at different geographical levels and to interact with one another in defining crime risk. This study proposes to innovate this approach by using a multi-level analysis and estimating the interaction terms among environmental features and neighborhood characteristics. An empirical test is conducted in a large urban area. The results prove that this method significantly increases the predictive capacity and favors more complete interpretations of the underlying criminogenic mechanisms, thus orienting more effective consequential actions.

Learning Strategies of Secondary School Students as Correlates of Academic Achievement and Gender

2016 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Harjit Kaur Gill
Keyword(s):  
Academic Achievement ◽  
Secondary School ◽  
Learning Strategies ◽  
Secondary School Students ◽  
Self Regulation ◽  
Low Achievers ◽  
Motivational Strategies ◽  
School Students ◽  
And Gender ◽  
The Relationship

The objectives of the study were: (i) to study the learning strategies of Secondary school students, (ii) to study gender differences in the learning strategies of secondary school students (iii) to study the relationship between learning strategies and academic achievement of secondary school students.1200 secondary school students of Punjab were administered Motivational Strategies for Learning Questionnaire (Pintrich et al, 1991) The results show that significant differences have not been found between high and low achievers as well as between male and female school students on the rehearsal, elaboration, organization, critical thinking and meta-cognitive of self-regulation of learning strategies. Even the interaction effect of gender and academic achievement was not found significant on these dimensions except the last one i.e. meta-cognitive self-regulation dimension.

scholarly journals Inter-Relations among Motivation, Self-Perceived Use of Strategies and Academic Achievement in Science: A Study with Spanish Secondary School Students

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (17) ◽  
pp. 6752 ◽  
Author(s):  
Enric Ortega-Torres ◽  
Joan-Josep Solaz-Portoles ◽  
Vicente Sanjosé-López
Keyword(s):  
Academic Achievement ◽  
Secondary School ◽  
Learning Strategies ◽  
Science Achievement ◽  
Secondary School Students ◽  
Management Strategies ◽  
The Self ◽  
School Students ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Cognitive And Metacognitive Strategies

The relationship between motivation and the use of learning strategies is a focus of research in order to improve students’ learning. Meaningful learning requires a learner’s personal commitment to put forth the required effort needed to acquire new knowledge. This commitment involves emotional as well as cognitive and metacognitive factors, and requires the ability to manage different resources at hand, in order to achieve the proposed learning goals. The main objectives in the present study were to analyse: (a) Spanish secondary school students’ motivation and self-perception of using strategies when learning science; (b) the nature of the relationship between motivation and perceived use of learning strategies; (c) the influence of different motivational, cognitive, metacognitive and management strategies on students’ science achievement. The Motivated Strategies for Learning Questionnaire (MSLQ) was administered to 364 middle and high-school students in grades 7–11. For each participant, the academic achievement was provided by the respective science teacher. The results obtained from the Pearson product-moment correlations between the study variables and a stepwise regression analysis suggested that: (1) motivation, cognitive and metacognitive, and resource management strategies, have a significant influence on students’ science achievement; (2) students’ motivation acts as a kind of enabling factor for the intellectual effort, which is assessed by the self-perceived use of learning strategies in science; and, (3) motivational components have a greater impact on students’ performance in science than cognitive and metacognitive strategies, with self-efficacy being the variable with the strongest influence. These results suggest a reflexion about the limited impact on science achievement of the self-perceived use of cognitive and metacognitive strategies, and highlight the importance of students’ self-efficacy in science, in line with previous studies.

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