Lit Review 4

2) Nonis, S.A. and Hudson, G.I. 2010. “Performance of College Students: Impacts of Study Time and Study Habits.” Journal of Education for Business 85 no. 4: 229-248.

3) The authors examined the impact of both time spent studying and time spent working on academic performance. Furthermore, motivation and ability was looking further into with respect to study time and its impact on academic performace. As their conclusion, they found out that motivation, a nonability variable, plays a major role in the ability of influence academic performance.

4) Sarath Nonis is a professor at Arkansas State University and has published in the Journal of the Academy of Marketin Science, Journal of Business Research and many other. He was won research awards at Arkansas University.

Gail Hudson is a professor of Marketing at Arkansas University. She in interested in research on motivation and student learning.

5) Performance: Performance is defined as ability x motivation. A student with high ability and low motivation is unlikely to perform well.

Motivation: The driving force behind someone. It is their motive and why they do what they do. THis is extremely important to  Nonis and Hudson in the study

6)
-"These results indicate that the relationships that college students’ abilities (ACT composite score), motivation (achievement striving), and behavior (TSA and TSW) have with academic performance are more complex than what individuals believe them to be."pg 156

-"TSW did not directly affect academic performance."-pg 156

-"The results suggested that nonability variables like motivation and study time significantly interact with ability to influence academic performance. Contrary to popular belief, the amount of time spent studying or at work had no direct influence on academic performance. The authors also addressed implications and direction for future research." -pg 151

7) They found out that GPAs were not directly related to the amount of study time a student was able to commit, instead it was the ability to concentrate that may be a better predictor of performance. Commuter students have more commitments and family obligation and their performance is impacted because of this.