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PREDICTING STUDENT PERFORMANCE IN COLLEGES OF EDUCATION
Author(s) -
CORTIS G. A.
Publication year - 1968
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.2044-8279.1968.tb01996.x
Subject(s) - psychology , fluency , creativity , personality , mathematics education , pedagogy , predictive power , cognition , social psychology , philosophy , epistemology , neuroscience
S ummary . Two‐hundred‐and‐fifty‐nine students in three constituent colleges of education of the University of Manchester School of Education were tested with cognitive, creativity and personality measures. They also supplied some biographical details. The predictive power of these measures was analysed in terms of final examination grades in educational theory, practical teaching, academic subjects and basic English. The analysis revealed an apparent dichotomy between the professional and academic criteria of success. Correlates of classroom success included previous teaching experience, lower verbal fluency and naturalistic and tender‐minded attitudes to education. Correlates of academic success included high verbal ability, sound entrance qualifications and idealistic and tough‐minded attitudes to education. The results obtained are compared with a similar investigation of students from the University's Department of Education.