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The past several decades of research in education has suggested that students’ attitudes, interests, beliefs, and values are important to educators and such affective dispositions are often predictor of students’ subsequent behaviour which leads to academic success (Popham, 2005).
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Afari, E., Khine, M.S. (2016). Non-Cognitive Variables and Academic Success. In: Khine, M.S., Areepattamannil, S. (eds) Non-cognitive Skills and Factors in Educational Attainment. Contemporary Approaches to Research in learning Innovations. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6300-591-3_20
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