Age is not associated with academic performance (GPA) in older learners up to the eighth decade¶

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Evidence · 1 study · associational r2 · q2
Currency · newest study 2017 · not yet checked against its sources · not reviewed by a person

Subclaims¶

q2 i? Age did not account for a significant proportion of residual variance in GPA in the final model (β = 0.064, p = 0.250). → Imlach 2017

Evidence¶

Imlach 2017¶

Imlach, A.-R., Ward, D. D., Stuart, K. E., Summers, M. J., Valenzuela, M. J., King, A. E., Saunders, N. L., Summers, J., Srikanth, V. K., Robinson, A. & Vickers, J. C. (2017). Age is no barrier: predictors of academic success in older learners. npj Science of Learning 2:13. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41539-017-0014-5

q2 · i? · associational · r2

In the final hierarchical regression (N = 329), age entered as a secondary predictor was non-significant (β = 0.064, p = 0.250, sr² = 0.003); Fig. 2 shows the non-significant age–GPA scatter plot. No effect size for the age association is printed beyond these coefficients.

"Neither age (Fig. 2) nor study load accounted for a signi ficant proportion of the residual variance in GPA."

Discussion¶

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