Publications by authors named "Julian C Smit"
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- Traditional predictors like SAT scores and high school GPA only explain about 25% of college academic performance, indicating there's more to consider.
- This study aimed to explore how four categories of life-skills can contribute to academic success, finding that these life-skills added an extra 9.4% to the variance in GPA beyond the traditional predictors.
- Among the life-skills, physical fitness and health maintenance proved to have a significant impact on predicting college GPA, highlighting the need for further research on this topic.
The Student Attitudes Toward School Safety Measures (SATSSM) instrument was developed as a new tool to assess high school students' attitudes towards school safety promotion methods. A theory-based pool of statements was scaled using Thurstone's equal appearing interval method by 186 student judges to yield a 30-item instrument. The draft version was operationalized into a 5-point, Likert scale format, using a new sample of 182 students.
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