NFC-Grades

Data and Code for "On the interplay of motivational characteristics and academic achievement: The role of Need for Cognition"

Anja Strobel* (TU Chemnitz), Alexander Strobel** (TU Dresden), Franzis Preckel (University of Trier), and Ricarda Steinmayr (TU Dortmund)

* Corresponding author for the above manuscript, to appear in AERA Open; ** Corresponding author for this repository

2023-08-10

This repository contains the data and code for reproducing the analyses described in the above manuscript.

The project contains the following folders:

Code contains the analysis code of this project
Data contains the original data needed to execute the analysis code and *.RData files with all the variables generated by the R scripts in the Code folder
Manuscript contains files of the main manuscript and supplement as well as their revisions and revision letters, both in *.docx and *.pdf format

To use this project, either clone this project from https://github.com/alex-strobel/NFC-Grades via the green Code button top right (recommended) or download the respective files from https://osf.io/34yav/files/github via the Download this folder link at the top right on that page.

To reproduce our result, you need the free R software for statistical computing. When R is installed, open the R script NFC-Grades_new.R in the Code folder, and once all missing packages are installed via executing code lines 5-10, you should be able to reproduce the results of our manuscript. Note that because of potential differences in package versions used by us for this manuscript (see Supplementary Material/Supplementary Methods for the version numbers used here) and the packages used by you to reproduce the results, there might be some minor numerical deviations in the results. If you deem these deviations not so minor, please contact alexander.strobel@tu-dresden.de.