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

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  • Demetriou, Andreas
  • Kazi, Smaragda
  • Spanoudis, George
  • Makris, Nikolaos

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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.

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  • Demetriou, Andreas & Kazi, Smaragda & Spanoudis, George & Makris, Nikolaos, 2019. "Predicting school performance from cognitive ability, self-representation, and personality from primary school to senior high school," Intelligence, Elsevier, vol. 76(C).
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:intell:v:76:y:2019:i:c:s0160289619300820
    DOI: 10.1016/j.intell.2019.101381
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    1. Demetriou, Andreas & Golino, Hudson & Spanoudis, George & Makris, Nikolaos & Greiff, Samuel, 2021. "The future of intelligence: The central meaning-making unit of intelligence in the mind, the brain, and artificial intelligence," Intelligence, Elsevier, vol. 87(C).
    2. Zisman, Chen & Ganzach, Yoav, 2022. "The claim that personality is more important than intelligence in predicting important life outcomes has been greatly exaggerated," Intelligence, Elsevier, vol. 92(C).
    3. Demetriou, Andreas & Kazi, Smaragda & Makris, Nikolaos & Spanoudis, George, 2020. "Cognitive ability, cognitive self-awareness, and school performance: From childhood to adolescence," Intelligence, Elsevier, vol. 79(C).
    4. Starr, Alexandra & Riemann, Rainer, 2022. "Common genetic and environmental effects on cognitive ability, conscientiousness, self-perceived abilities, and school performance," Intelligence, Elsevier, vol. 93(C).
    5. Demetriou, Andreas & Makris, Nikolaos & Tachmatzidis, Dimitrios & Kazi, Smaragda & Spanoudis, George, 2019. "Decomposing the influence of mental processes on academic performance," Intelligence, Elsevier, vol. 77(C).

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