Relative importance of social factors linked to academic achievement in the 1st grade

Šarūnė Magelinskaitė-Legkauskienė; Visvaldas Legkauskas; Albina Kepalaitė

doi:10.21277/sw.v2i6.265

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Šarūnė Magelinskaitė-Legkauskienė

Vytautas Magnus University, Lithuania

Visvaldas Legkauskas

Vytautas Magnus University, Lithuania

Albina Kepalaitė

Vytautas Magnus University, Lithuania

Published 2016-12-30

https://doi.org/10.21277/sw.v2i6.265

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academic achievement
elementary school
popularity
learning-related social competence
student-teacher relationship

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Magelinskaitė-Legkauskienė, Šarūnė, Legkauskas, V. and Kepalaitė, A. (2016) “Relative importance of social factors linked to academic achievement in the 1st grade”, Social Welfare: Interdisciplinary Approach, 6(2), pp. 30–41. doi:10.21277/sw.v2i6.265.

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Abstract

The present study was aimed at investigating aspects of social functioning linked to academic achievement in the 1^st grade. Subjects were 380 Lithuanian 1^st graders, 211 girls and 169 boys. Social factors measured included student social competence, student-teacher relationship, and popularity in class. Regression analysis revealed that learning-related social competence – ability to take directions - was a strongest predictor, accounting for 28.7% of variance in academic achievement

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