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THE STANDARDISATION AND PREDICTIVE VALUE OF A BATTERY OF ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT TESTS FOR THE PURPOSE OF ACADEMIC COUNSELLING AT SOUTH AFRICAN UNIVERSITIES *
Author(s) -
SONNEKUS M. C. H.
Publication year - 1959
Publication title -
british journal of educational psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.557
H-Index - 95
eISSN - 2044-8279
pISSN - 0007-0998
DOI - 10.1111/j.2044-8279.1959.tb01487.x
Subject(s) - aptitude , psychology , academic achievement , predictive value , personality , test (biology) , mathematics education , predictive validity , construct (python library) , achievement test , developmental psychology , standardized test , social psychology , medicine , computer science , biology , programming language , paleontology
S ummary . In this investigation an attempt was made to construct and standardise academic achievement tests for the purpose of counselling at South African universities. Tests in Afrikaans, English, mathematics, physics and chemistry for first year university students were combined in two batteries for the prediction of academic success in B.A. and B.Sc. courses respectively. The results proved that the tests standardised in this research are better predictors of academic success than intelligence tests, ability (aptitude), interest, and personality tests. A comparison of these test results with those in overseas researches shows that they compare favourably.