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INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES AND COURSE PERFORMANCE
Author(s) -
GAYNOR JESSICA,
MILLHAM J.
Publication year - 1975
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.2044-8279.1975.tb02966.x
Subject(s) - psychology , concordance , preference , test anxiety , variance (accounting) , test (biology) , academic achievement , anxiety , social psychology , developmental psychology , mathematics education , statistics , mathematics , medicine , paleontology , accounting , psychiatry , business , biology
S ummary . The relationship of several individual difference variables to achievement in college courses was investigated, using a sample of 500 freshmen and sophomores taking introductory psychology. Previous grades, degree of concordance between student preference and actual course conditions, and facilitating anxiety were found to explain 82 per cent of the variance in test performance. The importance of assessing student preferences in academic planning is discussed.