Predicting school achievement from cognitive and non-cognitive variables in a Chinese sample of elementary school children

	Predicting school achievement from cognitive and non-cognitive variables in a Chinese sample of elementary school children
	Lu, Liping 1,2; Weber, Heike S.3; Spinath, Frank M.3; Shi, Jiannong1,2
刊名	INTELLIGENCE
	2011-03-01
卷号	39 期号:2-3 页码:130-140
关键词	School achievement Intelligence Working memory Self-perceived ability Intrinsic values
ISSN号	0160-2896
通讯作者	Shi, JN (reprint author), Chinese Acad Sci, Inst Psychol, Beijing 100864, Peoples R China.
产权排序	1
英文摘要	The present study had two aims: First, to investigate the joint and specific roles of working memory (WM) and intelligence as predictors of school achievement. And second, to replicate and extend earlier findings (Spinath, Spinath, Harlaar, & Plomin, 2006) on the incremental validity of non-cognitive over cognitive abilities in the prediction of school achievement. The present sample consisted of N = 179 Chinese primary school children in the fourth grade. All measures including working memory (WM), intelligence and motivational items were assessed in class. Teachers provided test scores for the domains of Chinese and Math. We found that WM was a good predictor of school achievement and comparable in predictive power to intelligence. Together, cognitive ability including both WM and intelligence explained 17.8% and 36.4% of the variance in children's Chinese and Math scores, respectively. The relative importance of WM and intelligence varied with school domains with greater predictive power of WM for Math while intelligence explained a greater proportion of the variance in Chinese although the magnitude of this difference was only moderate. Domain-specific motivational constructs contributed only marginally to the prediction of school achievement for both Chinese and Math. Crown Copyright (C) 2011 Published by Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
学科主题	Psychology of Education
收录类别	SSCI
原文出处	http://ac.els-cdn.com/S0160289611000225/1-s2.0-S0160289611000225-main.pdf?_tid=6cc7178a-cc72-11e4-8d9a-00000aab0f26&acdnat=1426575436_d151fe60812508a023fc85100fdc3444
语种	英语
WOS记录号	WOS:000290422900008
内容类型	期刊论文
源URL	[http://ir.psych.ac.cn/handle/311026/12900]
专题	心理研究所_认知与发展心理学研究室
作者单位	1.Chinese Acad Sci, Inst Psychol, Beijing 100864, Peoples R China 2.Chinese Acad Sci, Grad Univ, Beijing 100864, Peoples R China 3.Univ Saarland, Dept Psychol, Saarbrucken, Germany
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Lu, Liping,Weber, Heike S.,Spinath, Frank M.,et al. Predicting school achievement from cognitive and non-cognitive variables in a Chinese sample of elementary school children[J]. INTELLIGENCE,2011,39(2-3):130-140.
APA	Lu, Liping,Weber, Heike S.,Spinath, Frank M.,&Shi, Jiannong.(2011).Predicting school achievement from cognitive and non-cognitive variables in a Chinese sample of elementary school children.INTELLIGENCE,39(2-3),130-140.
MLA	Lu, Liping,et al."Predicting school achievement from cognitive and non-cognitive variables in a Chinese sample of elementary school children".INTELLIGENCE 39.2-3(2011):130-140.