On Unraveling Student Resilience and Academic Performance in Higher Education

Aldy Gunawan, Ee-Peng Lim, Audrey Tedja Widjaja, William Tov, James Foo, Lieven Demeester

2025

Abstract

The transition period from pre-tertiary to higher education levels is critical. We explore the role of resilience by conducting a survey to investigate students’ resilience and the relationship with overall academic performance, learning experience, and well-being. This effort is part of an initiative to develop strategies for better student engagement in the academic program, enhance their resilience, and prepare them for a competitive job market. We conclude that (i) high-resilience students are associated with better life satisfaction and are likely to perform well academically, (ii) a favorable learning environment supports students to study and perform well in the university, and (iii) academic program experience can contribute to students’ resilience. Additionally, we demonstrate that a grade prediction model, developed using students’ historical performance, resilience strength, learning experiences, and well-being, can accurately forecast their overall academic performance, with an average prediction error as low as one letter grade difference from the actual grades.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Gunawan A., Lim E., Widjaja A., Tov W., Foo J. and Demeester L. (2025). On Unraveling Student Resilience and Academic Performance in Higher Education. In Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Computer Supported Education - Volume 2: CSEDU; ISBN 978-989-758-746-7, SciTePress, pages 208-215. DOI: 10.5220/0013197500003932

in Bibtex Style

@conference{csedu25,
author={Aldy Gunawan and Ee-Peng Lim and Audrey Widjaja and William Tov and James Foo and Lieven Demeester},
title={On Unraveling Student Resilience and Academic Performance in Higher Education},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Computer Supported Education - Volume 2: CSEDU},
year={2025},
pages={208-215},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0013197500003932},
isbn={978-989-758-746-7},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Computer Supported Education - Volume 2: CSEDU
TI - On Unraveling Student Resilience and Academic Performance in Higher Education
SN - 978-989-758-746-7
AU - Gunawan A.
AU - Lim E.
AU - Widjaja A.
AU - Tov W.
AU - Foo J.
AU - Demeester L.
PY - 2025
SP - 208
EP - 215
DO - 10.5220/0013197500003932
PB - SciTePress