Effects Of Everyday Academic Resilience And Academic Engagement On Students' Performance In High School

Everyday academic resilience refers to students' ability to successfully deal with academic setbacks and challenges that are typical of the ordinary course of school life. It permits all students into the studies of resilience, thus broadening the traditional researches of resilience. The purpose of this study is to explore the relationship between everyday academic resilience and academic performance of high school students, as well as the role of academic engagement as an important mediator. By revising the scale of everyday academic resilience and establishing a questionnaire of academic engagement for middle school students, this study invited a total of 963 high school students to participate in this research. The results showed that:1. The questionnaire of academic engagement has 7 dimensions, 39 items, and its dimensions are attention, effort, persistence, interest, value, meta-cognitive strategies and deep strategies, whose reliabilities ranged from 0.71~0.87. Second-order factor analysis showed that all first-order dimension of engagement has a good load to a second-order factor "academic engegement" with the reliability was 0.86.2. Revised scale of everyday academic resilience has one dimension with 4 items. Reliabilities of scale were 0.71.3. Everyday academic resilience related to student's performance in mid-term exam and final exam in the same term positively, however, had nothing to do with the short-term progress in grades.4. Everyday academic resilience positively relates to persistence, interest, value, meta-cognitive strategies, and deep strategies. And attention, persistence, interest, value, meta-cognitive strategies, and deep strategies in academic engagement related to student's performance in mid-term exam and final exam in the same term positively, but also had nothing to do with the short-term progress in grades.5. Confirmatory factor analysis showed that the effect of everyday academic resilience on students' performance in subsequent final exam can be completely mediate by the overall academic engagement or interest, value, as well as deep strategy, which highlights the role of emotional engagement and cognitive engagement as the mediators.