The present study assessed the correlation between two measures of academic curiosity with academic performance and class attendance for 121 undergraduate college students. Curiosity was related to both variables (rs of .21 to .27) with moderate significant relationships between the two measures of curiosity (.39) and between academic performance and class attendance (.35).
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