School, Pupil's well-being and Achievement Scores: A psychological perspective on some of the factors that affect some pupils' performance in school
(2007)Department of Psychology
- Abstract
- This study aims to describe how pupils' achievement scores can be affected by the school that the pupil goes to and the pupil's well-being. The participants in this study were upper secondary school pupils. The participants were doing their last year in upper secondary school and they are pupils that have reached the age of 18 years. Questionnaires were used for this study. This method entailed concentrating on small groups of pupils to get into the depth of the samples' reasoning and feelings. The sample was selected according to the programme that they attend in school. The programmes were used to select the sample, depended on the entry scores for that particular programme. The two programmes that were picked for this study have two... (More)
- This study aims to describe how pupils' achievement scores can be affected by the school that the pupil goes to and the pupil's well-being. The participants in this study were upper secondary school pupils. The participants were doing their last year in upper secondary school and they are pupils that have reached the age of 18 years. Questionnaires were used for this study. This method entailed concentrating on small groups of pupils to get into the depth of the samples' reasoning and feelings. The sample was selected according to the programme that they attend in school. The programmes were used to select the sample, depended on the entry scores for that particular programme. The two programmes that were picked for this study have two categories: high entry scores and low entry scores. The results showed differences in scores, some mostly not significant. For example, pupils from divorced parents were more representative of the pupils that obtained the lower score compared to those who came from none divorced parents. The study concludes that there are no significant links between the school that a pupil attends, the pupil's well-being in school and the achievement score (grade) that the pupil eventually attains. (Less)
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- author
- Regenhardt, Bessie Mofya
- supervisor
- organization
- year
- 2007
- type
- H1 - Master's Degree (One Year)
- subject
- keywords
- Well-being, performance in school, achievement scores, Quality-of-school life, Well-being Model, The basic path model, subjective well-being, Psychology, Psykologi, Development psychology, Utvecklingspsykologi, Social psychology, Socialpsykologi
- language
- English
- id
- 1319417
- date added to LUP
- 2008-01-07 00:00:00
- date last changed
- 2009-02-10 00:00:00
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abstract = {{This study aims to describe how pupils' achievement scores can be affected by the school that the pupil goes to and the pupil's well-being. The participants in this study were upper secondary school pupils. The participants were doing their last year in upper secondary school and they are pupils that have reached the age of 18 years. Questionnaires were used for this study. This method entailed concentrating on small groups of pupils to get into the depth of the samples' reasoning and feelings. The sample was selected according to the programme that they attend in school. The programmes were used to select the sample, depended on the entry scores for that particular programme. The two programmes that were picked for this study have two categories: high entry scores and low entry scores. The results showed differences in scores, some mostly not significant. For example, pupils from divorced parents were more representative of the pupils that obtained the lower score compared to those who came from none divorced parents. The study concludes that there are no significant links between the school that a pupil attends, the pupil's well-being in school and the achievement score (grade) that the pupil eventually attains.}},
author = {{Regenhardt, Bessie Mofya}},
language = {{eng}},
note = {{Student Paper}},
title = {{School, Pupil's well-being and Achievement Scores: A psychological perspective on some of the factors that affect some pupils' performance in school}},
year = {{2007}},
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