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RELATIONS BETWEEN ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT AND AFTER-SCHOOL ACTIVITIES: HOMEWORK, EXTRACURRICULAR ACTIVITIES AND TELEVISION WATCHING

This study has investigated the relations between academic achievement and three after-school homework, extracurricular activities and television viewing. Intelligence, achievement motivation, number of siblings, kind of school (private & public) were control variables and sex of students and their motherʹs education were moderator variables. The sample included 121 grade 10 from mathematics-physics section. The subjects completed questions concerning their after-school activities and answered to the Hermans Achievement Motivation Questionniare and the Raven Intelligence Test. The studentsʹ final grades on mathematics were considered as dependent variable. Results revealed the significant effects of intelligence as a controling variable and motherʹs education as a moderator variable: With controlling intelligence there was no relationship between academic achievement and after-school activities. Without consideration of this variable the amount of finished homework contributed significantly to the prediction of academic achievement. There was a meaningful curvilinear relationship between out of school extracurricular activities and academic achievement. Generally more amount of finished homework and out of school extracurricular activities were associated with better grades.