THE I-D SCHOLASTIC TEST BATTERY AS A PREDICTOR OF GRADES IN ACADEMIC SUBJECTS IN THE WEST AFRICAN SCHOOL CERTIFICATE

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dc.contributor.authorPARKE, ARTHUR W. M.
dc.date.accessioned2014-03-04T08:38:57Z
dc.date.available2014-03-04T08:38:57Z
dc.date.issued1977
dc.descriptionA 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 1977en_US
dc.description.abstractEleven 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.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/123456789/3147
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.subjectI-D SCHOLASTIC TEST,en_US
dc.subjectBATTERY,en_US
dc.subjectPREDICTOR,en_US
dc.subjectACADEMIC SUBJECTS,en_US
dc.subjectWEST AFRICAN SCHOOL CERTIFICATEen_US
dc.titleTHE I-D SCHOLASTIC TEST BATTERY AS A PREDICTOR OF GRADES IN ACADEMIC SUBJECTS IN THE WEST AFRICAN SCHOOL CERTIFICATEen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US
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