Academic well-being, mathematics performance, and educational aspirations in lower secondary education: Changes within a school year

A Widlund, H Tuominen, J Korhonen - Frontiers in psychology, 2018 - frontiersin.org
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It has been suggested that both performance and academic well-being play a role in
adolescent students' educational attainment and school dropout. In this study, we therefore
examined, first, what kinds of academic well-being (ie, school burnout, schoolwork
engagement, and mathematics self-concept) and mathematics performance profiles can be
identified among lower secondary school students (N grade 7= 583, N grade 9= 497);
second, how stable these profiles are across one school year during the seventh and ninth …
It has been suggested that both performance and academic well-being play a role in adolescent students’ educational attainment and school dropout. In this study, we therefore examined, first, what kinds of academic well-being (i.e., school burnout, schoolwork engagement, and mathematics self-concept) and mathematics performance profiles can be identified among lower secondary school students (Ngrade 7 = 583, Ngrade 9 = 497); second, how stable these profiles are across one school year during the seventh and ninth grades; and, third, how students with different academic well-being and mathematics performance profiles differ with respect to their educational aspirations. By means of latent profile analyses, three groups of students in seventh grade: thriving (34%), average (51%), and negative academic well-being (15%) and four groups of students in ninth grade: thriving (25%), average (50%), negative academic well-being (18%), and low-performing (7%) with distinct well-being and mathematics performance profiles were identified. Configural frequency analyses revealed that the profiles were relatively stable across one school year; 60% of the students displayed identical profiles over time. The thriving students reported the highest educational aspirations compared to the other groups. In addition, the low-performing students in the ninth grade had the lowest educational aspirations just before the transition to upper secondary school. Practical implications as well as directions for future research are discussed.
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