Predicción del rendimiento académico del alumnado de Bachillerato: efecto de los enfoques de aprendizaje y atribuciones causales

Abstract

The first aim of this study was to determine the influence of variables derived from learning approaches and causal attributions in high school students’ academic performance. This implies knowing the causal attributional factors and learning approaches with important predictive capacity for performance. For this purpose, a sample of 1505 high school students with an average age of 17.8 years (females) and 17.6 (males) was used. The results indicate that, in females, the internal variables of causal attribution (capacity and effort) and meaning-oriented learning approaches are the factors with greater positive and significant predictivecapacity for academic performance. In males, meaning-orientated learning approaches are more notable, followed by internal causal attributions. In addition, in both sexes, it can be seenthat surface orientation approaches, uncontrollable attributions, and low effort also significantlypredict high school students’ academic performance, albeitnegatively. No statistically significant differences were as a function of gender.