Early prosocial behavior predicted later academic achievement more strongly than early academic skills¶
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q2 i? Third-grade prosocial behavior robustly predicted eighth-grade academic achievement, while third-grade academic achievement was not a significant predictor of eighth-grade success when controlling for prosocial behaviors. → Donald E Grant Jr. & Jerell B. Hill 2020
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Donald E Grant Jr. & Jerell B. Hill 2020¶
Donald E Grant Jr. & Jerell B. Hill. (2020). Activating Culturally Empathic Motivation in Diverse Students. Journal of Education and Learning, 9(5). https://doi.org/10.5539/jel.v9n5p45
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The article reports, citing Caprara et al.'s longitudinal study of children's third-grade social behavior predicting eighth-grade achievement, that prosocial behavior was the robust predictor. No effect size is printed.
"Caprara et al. (2000) found that early prosocial behavior robustly predicted later academic achievement, but old aggressive behaviors did not."
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Early prosocial behavior predicted later academic achievement more strongly than early academic skills |
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Early prosocial behavior predicted later academic achievement more strongly than early academic skills |
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