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104 Citations
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26 March 2023

Challenges and competition are being faced in higher education. Students’ unsatisfactory academic performance and dropouts are obvious problems worldwide. The “student-centered” pedagogy requires universities to pay attention to the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
11,842 Views
11 Pages

Association between Academic Performance, Physical Activity, and Academic Stress in Compulsory Secondary Education: An Analysis by Sex

  • Dilan Galeano-Rojas,
  • Marina Cuadros-Juárez,
  • Borys Bismark León Reyes,
  • Mónica Alexandra Castelo Reyna,
  • Claudio Farías-Valenzuela and
  • Pedro Valdivia-Moral

25 September 2024

Objectives: The main objective of this study is to analyze the relationships between academic performance, physical activity, and academic stress in secondary education students, while the secondary objective is to establish differences by gender in...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
1,902 Views
25 Pages

8 May 2025

This study explores the complex relationships among student cynicism, student–university identification, academic self-efficacy, and academic performance within the context of Turkish higher education. Drawing on social identity and social cogn...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
5,956 Views
11 Pages

Behaviour Patterns between Academic Motivation, Burnout and Academic Performance in Primary School Students

  • Pablo Usán,
  • Carlos Salavera,
  • Alberto Quílez-Robres and
  • Raquel Lozano-Blasco

Background: The final years of primary school (early adolescence) are regarded as key for the academic and personal development of students. This study aims to analyze the relationship between academic motivation, academic burnout, and academic perfo...

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  • Open Access
85 Citations
14,374 Views
12 Pages

The Influence of Transformational Teacher Leadership on Academic Motivation and Resilience, Burnout and Academic Performance

  • Rubén Trigueros,
  • Ana Padilla,
  • José M. Aguilar-Parra,
  • Isabel Mercader,
  • Remedios López-Liria and
  • Patricia Rocamora

Currently, the university failure rate is around 33% of students starting their studies. Among the main reasons are demanding academic situations and the use of inappropriate coping strategies. Therefore, the aim of this study was to analyze the infl...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,477 Views
17 Pages

The Importance of Campus Walkability for Academic Performance

  • Haiming Wang,
  • Zhehao Zhang,
  • Jieli Sui and
  • Wei Zhang

While campus-built environments constitute critical determinants of educational outcomes, empirical research remains scarce regarding how campus pedestrian-oriented design influences academic performance through underlying psycho-behavioral pathways....

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
6,808 Views
10 Pages

While a link between co-parenting conflict and academic performance is frequently assumed, studies on this association have shown inconsistent results. In addition, academic engagement and depression can potentially mediate the association between co...

  • Article
  • Open Access
47 Citations
31,896 Views
18 Pages

1 February 2019

In 1982, the “one-child policy” was implemented by China’s Constitution, which led to the majority of post-1990s college students in China being the only child in their family. Unique characteristics have been demonstrated in psycho...

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  • Open Access
67 Citations
49,332 Views
17 Pages

24 April 2019

The universal growth of social media usage among tertiary students has been linearly associated with academic performance. As social media use continues its constant growth, its application among tertiary students is inevitable. Its influence on acad...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
9,498 Views
15 Pages

Does Spirituality Influence Happiness and Academic Performance?

  • Rajasekhar David,
  • Sharda Singh,
  • Neuza Ribeiro and
  • Daniel Roque Gomes

4 July 2022

One of the key issues of the learning experience is students’ performance during the course, as this is pointed to as one of the main indicators for boosting competences’ development and skills’ improvement. This study explores the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
4,319 Views
18 Pages

University Coaching Experience and Academic Performance

  • Antonio Rodríguez Fuentes,
  • Antonia Navarro Rincón,
  • María José Carrillo López and
  • Laura Isla Navarro

26 February 2023

The university education process has changed, involving new roles for the student body and the teaching staff. While teachers train for these new functions, it is not the case for students who are neither prepared for group work nor to construct thei...

  • Article
  • Open Access
102 Citations
87,903 Views
12 Pages

21 April 2023

The success or failure of a student depends on several factors, including self-esteem, academic engagement, and motivation. Self-esteem and motivation have been found to influence academic engagement, which, in turn, contributes to academic performan...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
21,568 Views
8 Pages

Sport Participation and Academic Performance in Young Elite Athletes

  • Tania Pinto-Escalona,
  • Pedro L. Valenzuela,
  • Irene Esteban-Cornejo and
  • Óscar Martínez-de-Quel

Strong evidence supports physical activity and fitness levels being positively associated with cognitive performance and overall academic performance in youth. This also applies to sports participation. However, whether participation in sports at the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
15,929 Views
13 Pages

Academic Performance and Resilience in Secondary Education Students

  • Ana María Carroza-Pacheco,
  • Benito León-del-Barco and
  • Carolina Bringas Molleda

Academic performance is a factor of concern and interest in the educational context for the improvement of the educational and economic system of any country. Determining the factors influencing it has been the subject of multiple investigations. Thi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,558 Views
14 Pages

Effects of Socio-Academic Intervention on Student Performance in Vulnerable Groups

  • Tarquino Sánchez-Almeida,
  • David Naranjo,
  • Raquel Gilar-Corbi and
  • Jessica Reina

9 July 2021

In Ecuador, affirmative action policies enable students from vulnerable groups to preferentially enter universities. However, these policies are limited to admission and do not include academic or socio-economic support mechanisms that, according to...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
41,992 Views
13 Pages

17 May 2024

The Program for International Student Assessment highlights the persistent lack of commitment and motivation among students worldwide in their school activities, which are resulting in decreased proficiency levels in reading, mathematics, and science...

  • Article
  • Open Access
64 Citations
17,090 Views
10 Pages

Background: in the school stage, adolescents experience different emotional and motivational states involved in the learning process that play a fundamental role in their personal and academic development. In this way, the study focuses on analyzing...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
4,951 Views
13 Pages

Transactions between Problem Behaviors and Academic Performance in Early Childhood

  • Chin-Chih Chen,
  • Sheng-Lun Cheng,
  • Yaoying Xu,
  • Kathleen Rudasill,
  • Reed Senter,
  • Fa Zhang,
  • Melissa Washington-Nortey and
  • Nikki Adams

This study aimed to further the understanding of transactional relationships that exist between problem behaviors and academic performance in early childhood. Early academic and behavior difficulties increase the risk of school disengagement, academi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
6,538 Views
18 Pages

20 February 2025

This study aims to expose the correlation between different types of social behaviors and the academic performance of college students, and then to predict the academic performance of college students based on their social characteristics. We extract...

  • Article
  • Open Access
34 Citations
7,160 Views
8 Pages

Visual Health and Academic Performance in School-Aged Children

  • Cristina Alvarez-Peregrina,
  • Miguel Ángel Sánchez-Tena,
  • Cristina Andreu-Vázquez and
  • Cesar Villa-Collar

Background: Academic performance at different educational levels has become a very important subject of study in local, national and international institutions. A visual system working properly is critical to improving academic performance. It is imp...

  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
7,762 Views
11 Pages

Burnout, Goal Orientation and Academic Performance in Adolescent Students

  • Pablo Usán Supervía and
  • Carlos Salavera Bordás

During their school years, students can have different experiences and go through various emotional and motivational states that can affect their learning experience and play a key role in their personal and academic development. The goal of this pap...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,319 Views
16 Pages

University Academic Performance Development Prediction Based on TDA

  • Daohua Yu,
  • Xin Zhou,
  • Yu Pan,
  • Zhendong Niu,
  • Xu Yuan and
  • Huafei Sun

23 December 2022

With the rapid development of higher education, the evaluation of the academic growth potential of universities has received extensive attention from scholars and educational administrators. Although the number of papers on university academic evalua...

  • Article
  • Open Access
36 Citations
13,240 Views
11 Pages

Bullying in Adolescents: Differences between Gender and School Year and Relationship with Academic Performance

  • Ana Isabel Obregon-Cuesta,
  • Luis Alberto Mínguez-Mínguez,
  • Benito León-del-Barco,
  • Santiago Mendo-Lázaro,
  • Jessica Fernández-Solana,
  • Jerónimo J. González-Bernal and
  • Josefa González-Santos

School bullying is a phenomenon of unjustified aggression in the school environment that is widespread throughout the world and with serious consequences for both the bully and the bullied. The objectives of this research were to analyze the differen...

  • Article
  • Open Access
38 Citations
13,149 Views
19 Pages

Development of a Web-Based Prediction System for Students’ Academic Performance

  • Dabiah Alboaneen,
  • Modhe Almelihi,
  • Rawan Alsubaie,
  • Raneem Alghamdi,
  • Lama Alshehri and
  • Renad Alharthi

29 January 2022

Educational Data Mining (EDM) is used to extract and discover interesting patterns from educational institution datasets using Machine Learning (ML) algorithms. There is much academic information related to students available. Therefore, it is helpfu...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
5,909 Views
11 Pages

Extracurricular Activities and Academic Performance in Elementary School Students

  • Ramón Cladellas Pros,
  • Mercè Clariana Muntada,
  • Mar Badia Martín and
  • Concepción Gotzens Busquets

The aim of this study is to assess the potential impact of extracurricular activities on the academic performance of elementary school students. Attendance or not attendance, type of extracurricular activities (recreational, cognitive or both) and th...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,026 Views
11 Pages

28 February 2024

Creativity has been studied in relation to academic performance, usually from the perspective of the creative result, with fewer studies focusing on the creative process and the student’s awareness of that process, known as meta-creativity. Thi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
4,941 Views
15 Pages

Understanding factors that influence academic performances is vital. The aim of this study is to longitudinally test, with three timepoints, the unique contribution of several predictors to academic performance. In a sample of 796 Ecuadorian students...

  • Article
  • Open Access
44 Citations
5,842 Views
11 Pages

Academic performance, perceived social support and emotional intelligence at the university

  • Oihane Fernández-Lasarte,
  • Estibaliz Ramos-Díaz and
  • Inge Axpe Sáez

Perceived social support contributes to the students´ development and academic performance. Likewise, previous research suggests a positive relationship and influence of emotional intelligence on academic performance. Thus, the purpose of this study...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
7,565 Views
12 Pages

Physical Activity, Body Image, and Its Relationship with Academic Performance in Adolescents

  • José Pedro Guimarães,
  • Juan Pedro Fuentes-García,
  • Jara González-Silva and
  • María José Martínez-Patiño

17 February 2023

Academic success in adolescence is a strong predictor of well-being and health in adulthood. A healthy lifestyle and moderate/high levels of physical activity can influence academic performance. Therefore, we aimed to assess the relationship between...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,499 Views
33 Pages

11 August 2025

This study explores the relationship between academic motivation, Machiavellian traits, and lying tendencies among Romanian engineering students, with a focus on how these psychological variables influence academic performance. Data were collected fr...

  • Review
  • Open Access
41 Citations
19,891 Views
28 Pages

Neurocognitive Profile of Creativity in Improving Academic Performance—A Scoping Review

  • Maria Tzachrista,
  • Evgenia Gkintoni and
  • Constantinos Halkiopoulos

12 November 2023

The present study provides an in-depth review of the neurocognitive aspects of creativity and its association with academic achievement in children. The outcomes of this study indicate a considerable positive relationship between creativity and acade...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
4,032 Views
19 Pages

Lots of Digital Files? How Digital Hoarding Is Related to the Academic Performance of University Students

  • Natalia Bravo-Adasme,
  • Alejandro Cataldo,
  • Hedy Acosta-Antognoni,
  • Elizabeth Grandón,
  • Nicolás Bravo and
  • Margarita Valdés

Digital hoarding (DH) is an emerging behavior with potential implications for psychological well-being and daily functioning. While traditionally associated with physical hoarding disorder, DH presents unique challenges in digital environments, parti...

  • Review
  • Open Access
15 Citations
58,018 Views
25 Pages

18 March 2024

The relationship between academic performance and procrastination has been well documented over the last twenty years. The current research aggregates existing research on this topic. Most of the studies either find no result or a small negative resu...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,224 Views
17 Pages

4 June 2025

While static conscientiousness is known to predict academic success, personality can be particularly dynamic during adolescence. This study adopted a unique change-oriented perspective to examine the longitudinal relationship between within-person ch...

  • Systematic Review
  • Open Access
37 Citations
46,660 Views
17 Pages

5 June 2023

Schools offer a unique environment to influence children’s physical activity (PA) levels positively. This study aims to systematically review the evidence surrounding how PA affects academic performance by analysing how the frequency, intensity...

  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
2 Citations
15,001 Views
9 Pages

Association between Lifestyle-Related Behaviors and Academic Performance among Students

  • Siti Nurhafizah Mohd Shafie,
  • Mardhiah Shamsul Shahri,
  • Nur Najwa Najihah Irwan Izuddi,
  • Nursyazana Mohamad Shukri,
  • Nasuhar Ab Aziz,
  • Azzah Amran and
  • Mohd Noor Azam Nafi

A healthy lifestyle is one factor that minimizes the risk of becoming seriously ill or dying early. A student with a healthy mind and body would be a better learner and thus would achieve a better academic performance. However, the lifestyle of unive...

  • Article
  • Open Access
22 Citations
6,789 Views
12 Pages

The Relationship between Personality, Motivation and Academic Performance at Medical Students from Romania

  • Lorena Mihaela Muntean,
  • Aurel Nireștean,
  • Andreea Sima-Comaniciu,
  • Marius Mărușteri,
  • Cătălin Andrei Zăgan and
  • Emese Lukacs

The academic and health system requirements are constantly growing due to the continuous development of this sector. Therefore, it is important to investigate the structural factors that improve performance in the medical system. The aim of our pilot...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
6,376 Views
13 Pages

The objective of this study was to determine the impact of time spent at work (workload) on the academic performance of pharmacy students. A cross-sectional 12-item survey was administered to pharmacy students at the end of the spring 2011 semester t...

  • Review
  • Open Access
204 Citations
41,820 Views
22 Pages

Background: Scholars and policymakers have criticized public education in developed countries for perpetuating health and income disparities. Several studies have examined the ties between green space and academic performance, hypothesizing that gree...

  • Systematic Review
  • Open Access
79 Citations
88,083 Views
16 Pages

Impact of Gamification on Motivation and Academic Performance: A Systematic Review

  • Lorena Jaramillo-Mediavilla,
  • Andrea Basantes-Andrade,
  • Marcos Cabezas-González and
  • Sonia Casillas-Martín

This study aims to examine the existing evidence on gamification in educational settings, highlighting its impact on motivation and academic performance. Methodologically, a Systematic Literature Review (SLR) was developed under the PRISMA statement...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,210 Views
17 Pages

16 December 2025

Academic adaptation is widely recognized as a critical challenge for international students, with direct implications for their academic success and performance. While existing research has established a positive correlation between academic adaptati...

  • Article
  • Open Access
31 Citations
9,571 Views
13 Pages

24 February 2023

Academic performance prediction is an indispensable task for policymakers. Academic performance is frequently examined using classical statistical software, which can be used to detect logical connections between socioeconomic status and academic per...

  • Article
  • Open Access
22 Citations
14,385 Views
16 Pages

The Role of Self-Esteem in the Academic Performance of Rural Students in China

  • Wenjing Yu,
  • Yiwei Qian,
  • Cody Abbey,
  • Huan Wang,
  • Scott Rozelle,
  • Lauren Ann Stoffel and
  • Chenxu Dai

The self-esteem of students may be significantly associated with their academic performance. However, past research in developing contexts on this issue is limited, particularly among early adolescents. Using a sample of 3101 students from rural prim...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
5,193 Views
22 Pages

Learning Analytics to Determine Profile Dimensions of Students Associated with Their Academic Performance

  • Andres Gonzalez-Nucamendi,
  • Julieta Noguez,
  • Luis Neri,
  • Víctor Robledo-Rella,
  • Rosa María Guadalupe García-Castelán and
  • David Escobar-Castillejos

19 October 2022

With the recent advancements of learning analytics techniques, it is possible to build predictive models of student academic performance at an early stage of a course, using student’s self-regulation learning and affective strategies (SRLAS), a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
43 Citations
37,684 Views
17 Pages

Artificial Intelligence in Higher Education: A Predictive Model for Academic Performance

  • Silvia Pacheco-Mendoza,
  • Cesar Guevara,
  • Amalín Mayorga-Albán and
  • Juan Fernández-Escobar

27 September 2023

This research work evaluates the use of artificial intelligence and its impact on student’s academic performance at the University of Guayaquil (UG). The objective was to design and implement a predictive model to predict academic performance t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
12,399 Views
18 Pages

18 August 2023

Academic performance evaluation is essential to enhance educational affection and improve educational quality and level. However, evaluating academic performance is difficult due to the complexity and nonlinear education process and learning behavior...

  • Systematic Review
  • Open Access
34 Citations
18,846 Views
16 Pages

Types of Intelligence and Academic Performance: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

  • Raquel Lozano-Blasco,
  • Alberto Quílez-Robres,
  • Pablo Usán,
  • Carlos Salavera and
  • Raquel Casanovas-López

The concept of intelligence has been extensively studied, undergoing an evolution from a unitary concept to a more elaborate and complex multidimensional one. In addition, several research studies have focused their efforts for decades on the study o...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,619 Views
10 Pages

Dynamic Balance, but Not Precision Throw, Is Positively Associated with Academic Performance in Children

  • Rodrigo A. Lima,
  • David F. Stodden,
  • Karin A. Pfeiffer,
  • Lisbeth R. Larsen,
  • Mauro V. G. Barros,
  • Anna Bugge and
  • Lars B. Andersen

We analyzed the longitudinal association between dynamic balance and throwing skill with academic performance and whether waist circumference mediated these relationships. The current one-year longitudinal study followed 1020 first (mean age 7.87 &pl...

  • Review
  • Open Access
7 Citations
6,066 Views
19 Pages

Poor School Academic Performance and Benign Epilepsy with Centro-Temporal Spikes

  • Luigi Vetri,
  • Annamaria Pepi,
  • Marianna Alesi,
  • Agata Maltese,
  • Lidia Scifo,
  • Michele Roccella,
  • Giuseppe Quatrosi and
  • Maurizio Elia

28 January 2023

Background: Poor academic performance of students with epilepsy seems to be a multifactorial problem related to difficulties in reading, writing, math, and logic skills. Poor school and academic performances refer to learning problems in a specific a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
6,330 Views
17 Pages

7 June 2021

In this study, we developed and validated an instrument for measuring postgraduate competence and examined the relationships between postgraduate competence and academic research performance, along with the mediating role of psychological capital. Ba...

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