Intelligent students help their peers to understand their problems and bring up their grades. Having diligent friends in school allows the child to learn new things and enhance his or her knowledge. Working in groups with their peers teaches a child how to solve problems and apply the learning to an activity. Students are more likely to take in information from their peers and can apply it more easily (Davis, 1993). It is a fact that peer-pressure boosts students academic performance. However, academics are affected negatively from peer-pressure. It is very important to peers motivate each other. If they do not motivate each other, it leads to poor academic performance (Peza, 2015). Students often pick up the same attitude as their friends. If their friends skip classes and no longer care about grades, they also do the same
Intelligent students help their peers to understand their problems and bring up their grades. Having diligent friends in school allows the child to learn new things and enhance his or her knowledge. Working in groups with their peers teaches a child how to solve problems and apply the learning to an activity. Students are more likely to take in information from their peers and can apply it more easily (Davis, 1993). It is a fact that peer-pressure boosts students academic performance. However, academics are affected negatively from peer-pressure. It is very important to peers motivate each other. If they do not motivate each other, it leads to poor academic performance (Peza, 2015). Students often pick up the same attitude as their friends. If their friends skip classes and no longer care about grades, they also do the same