The role of executive functions on students' academic achievement

Abstract

The present study was conducted with the aim of the role of executive functions on the academic achievement of students in Mahdishahr. The statistical population of the study included 1559 people (746 girls, 813 boys). then 397 people (202 girls - 195

Boys) through regular random sampling) were systematically selected . to collect data  were used from the Nervous QuestionnaireCognitive college  (Alizadeh and Zahedipour, 2005) as well as the end grades of the second semester of the 2019_2020 academic  year. To Research data were analyzed using t-test, structural equations, descriptive statistics, correlation coefficient. Results Data analysis through Pls Smart software showed that there is a relationship between executive function and academic achievement. Furthermore, the findings showed that the components of executive functions are effective predictors of academic achievement of first high school students. the executive functions explain   0.147 of variance of academic achievement and the proposed model has a suitable fit.