The relationship between intelligence and academic achievement throughout middle school: The role of students' prior academic performance

Learning and Individual Differences

Volumn 41, Issue , 2015, Pages 73-78

  Soares, Diana Lopes ^a   Lemos, Gina C ^a   Primi, Ricardo ^b   Almeida, Leandro S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINHO   (Portugal)

^b Universidade de S Francisco   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Academic achievement; Gf Gc; Intelligence; Investment Theory; Mediation analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 84938985177     PISSN: 10416080     EISSN: 18733425     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.lindif.2015.02.005     Document Type: Article

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