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Predicting school performance from cognitive ability, self-representation, and personality from primary school to senior high school

Andreas Demetriou, Smaragda Kazi, George Spanoudis and Nikolaos Makris

Intelligence, 2019, vol. 76, issue C

Abstract: We explored the relations between academic performance, cognition, and personality. This study examined 689 participants from 10 to 17 years of age, by a cognitive battery addressing several reasoning domains (inductive, deductive, quantitative, causal, and spatial), and inventories addressing self-representation about reasoning domains and general cognitive processes, and the Big Five factors of personality. School performance in mathematics, science, and language was measured. Cognitive ability strongly and self-representation and personality (conscientiousness) moderately related with school performance. These relations varied with age and ability: the effects of cognitive ability on academic performance decreased and the effects of self-representation and personality increased with increasing age and ability. The implications for cognitive developmental theory and educational implications are discussed.

Keywords: Academic performance; Cognition; Cognitive development; Intelligence; Personality (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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DOI: 10.1016/j.intell.2019.101381

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