Causal Model Of The Four Factors That Affect Academic Achievement

Based on existed theories and studies about academic achievement(AA), the present study chose four variables that influence academicachievement mostly to examine. They are intelligence, non-intellectivefactors, self-efficacy and learning strategies. The present studyexamined the relation among above four variables and the relationbetween them and AA by using Structural Equation Model (SEM)technology. The findings revealed that IQ positively predicted AA;self-efficacy and non-intellective factors were not stable predictors ofAA; leaning strategies was not significant predictor of AA. Furthermore,intelligence positively predicted self-efficacy, and intelligence didn'talways predict non-intellective factors , while didn't predict learningstrategies; but both non-intellective factors and self-efficacy arepositive predictors of learning strategies; last, self-efficacy predictedpositively non-intellective factors.