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- Why study time does not predict grade point average across college students: Implications of deliberate practice for academic performance
- Introduction
- Deliberate practice and performance
- Toward a model of factors that determine grades during a semester in college
- Factors reflecting conditions prior to the start of a semester
- Factors reflecting effective study during a semester
- The current study
- Method
- Participants
- Procedure
- Materials
- Official university records
- Time allocation and academic performance questionnaire
- Daily time logs
- Results
- Examination of cumulative GPA
- Examination of GPA for the fall semester
- Predicting fall GPA controlling for GPA from earlier semesters
- Diary analyses
- General discussion
- Limitations and future directions
- Introduction
