The emotional well-being index has the least predictive power on academic outcomes, with effect sizes in the hundredth-of-a-SD range¶

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q2 i0 The Well-being index shows the smallest associations with academic outcomes of the three WEC indexes, with effect sizes in the hundredth of a standard deviation range. → Marrone 2024

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Marrone 2024¶

Marrone, Lam, Barthakur, Brinkman, Dawson, & Gabriel. (2024). The Relationship between Well-being and Academic Achievement: A Comprehensive Cross-Sectional Analysis of System Wide Data from 2016–2019. Journal of Learning Analytics, 11(3). https://doi.org/10.18608/jla.2024.8357

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The hierarchical mixed-model analysis of the linked WEC–academic dataset found the emotional well-being index (life satisfaction, optimism, sadness, worries, happiness, emotion regulation) had the weakest coefficients of the three indexes, "in the hundredth of a standard deviation range" (e.g., adjusted NAPLAN numeracy 0.042).

"Broken down into the three constructs, the Well -being index has the lea st predictive power on academic outcomes with effect sizes in the hundredth of a standard deviation range."

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