Skills to not fall behind in school

Document pages: 51 pages

Abstract: Many recent studies emphasize how important the role of cognitive andsocial-emotional skills can be in determining people s quality of life.Although skills are of great importance in many aspects, in this paper we willfocus our efforts to better understand the relationship between several typesof skills with academic progress delay. Our dataset contains the same studentsin 2012 and 2017, and we consider that there was a academic progress delay fora specific student if he or she progressed less than expected in school grades.Our methodology primarily includes the use of a Bayesian logistic regressionmodel and our results suggest that both cognitive and social-emotional skillsmay impact the conditional probability of falling behind in school, and themagnitude of the impact between the two types of skills can be comparable.