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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