THE I-D SCHOLASTIC TEST BATTERY AS A PREDICTOR OF GRADES IN ACADEMIC SUBJECTS IN THE WEST AFRICAN SCHOOL CERTIFICATE
THE I-D SCHOLASTIC TEST BATTERY AS A PREDICTOR OF GRADES IN ACADEMIC SUBJECTS IN THE WEST AFRICAN SCHOOL CERTIFICATE
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1977
Authors
PARKE, ARTHUR W. M.
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Abstract
Eleven of the tests of the I-D Aptitude Test
Battery are administered annually to second year pupils
in the secondary schools of Kaduna State. They are
used primarily to indicate aptitude for technical and
commercial courses but could also be used to predict
success in academic subjects.
This study investigates the validity of the four
Scholastic Aptitude Tests using the West African School
Certificate results as the criterion, and shows the
efficiency of the Verbal Analogies Test and the Reading
Comprehension Test as predictors of grades in the
examinations taken three years later. For the sample
of 150 of the pupils in Zaria schools who were tested
in 1973 and who took the WASC examinations in 1976,
these two tests gave a correlation coefficient of 0.69.
This confirms previous research which shows the importance
of the Intelligence and English Tests for success
in secondary education, but leaves in doubt the role of
a test of Arithmetic which has normally been considered
an essential part of any battery predicting success in
academic subjects.
Description
A THESIS
SUBMITTED IN PARTIAL FULFILMENT OF THE
REQUIREMENTS FOR THE DEGREE OF MASTER OF EDUCATION
IN
GUIDANCE AND COUNSELLING
DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
AHMADU BELLO UNIVERSITY
ZARIA
1977
Keywords
I-D SCHOLASTIC TEST,, BATTERY,, PREDICTOR,, ACADEMIC SUBJECTS,, WEST AFRICAN SCHOOL CERTIFICATE