Our extensive literature review in the fields of educational, social, and cognitive psychology
has led us to identify about a dozen variables that demonstrate direct empirical links to …

Education is an essentially social process, and the understanding of social contexts and
reciprocal interpersonal and group processes as they are likely to occur in schools and …

Recent research on school learning has dealt only with cognitive aspects of the student
activity. However, in typical learning and performance situations, the student is expected to …

Research extensively highlights the importance of social-emotional skills in learning and
development. In this study, we evaluated whether social and emotional variables directly …

Academic achievement in school holds the key to students' future careers and life success.
No one disputes that cognitive abilities such as intelligence, memory and information …

In explaining academic achievement, school climate and social belonging (connectedness,
identification) emerge as important variables. However, both constructs are rarely explored …

We discuss ways in which aspects of academic and social motivation interact to influence
student's academic performance. Research on academic and social motivational constructs …

This article explores the influence of relationships on student achievement by examining
empirical evidence and by adopting a social psychological theory. Initially, the issue is …

There is general agreement about the benefits of school-based social and emotional
learning (SEL) interventions in relation to children and young people's social-emotional …

Abstract According to DiPerna and Elliott (2002), academic competence comprises both
academic skills and academic enablers. Academic enablers, which are within student …