Relationships of Indices of Eighth Grade Academic Achievement to Sex and to Measures of Differentiated Aptitudes and Personality Traits

Relationships between achievement measures and those of aptitude, sex, and personality traits were explored in a sample of 226 eighth grade students in a suburban school. Eighteen aptitude measures and a 14-scale personality inventory were administered and factor analyzed; salient tests and scales were selected as predictors of standardized measures of academic achievement. Results of a sequential, step-wise multiple regression analysis indicated that an evaluation of systems test (Figure Analogies) and a production of systems test (Word Grouping) together predicted 48 to 52% of variances in standardized tests of language, mathematics, and social studies. That sex was not a significant predictor of achievement reflected a possible breakdown in the previously identified strong sex-linked patterns between traits and achievement

Academic achievement · Achievement test · Aptitude · Big Five personality traits · Developmental psychology · Mathematics education · Personality · Regression analysis · Scale (ratio) · Standardized test · Statistics · Test (biology) · Education, Achievement, and Giftedness · Mathematics · Psychology · Social Psychology

• Redundancy in the Stanford Achievement Test

  Open Access•Philip R Merrifield, Philip Merrifield et al.•Educational and Psychological…•1976

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