# 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 comprises 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 Use the code-file "NFC-Grades_new.R"! Execute the first lines of the script to install/activate the required packages. Then you should be able to reproduce our manuscript. Note that because of differences in package versions used by us for this manuscript (see Manuscript/Supplementary Material#Supplementary Methods for the versions 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.