Zern, D. S. 1989. “Some Connections Between Increasing Religiousness and Academic Accomplishment in a College Population.” Adolescence 24: 141-154.
In this study, Zern surveys college students about their religious beliefs and their grade point averages (GPAs). Asking separate questions about past and current religiosity, he found that neither of these individual measures of religion in the students was related to their grades. However, for about ten percent of these college students, their current religiosity was higher than that of their past or the environment they were raised in; these particular students of “increasing religiousness” during college showed a tendency to have higher GPAs than students of decreasing religiousness or those whose level did not change.
