The Predictive Validity of the Lorge-Thorndike Intelligence Tests at the Kindergarten Level

Fifty undergraduate students (27 female, 23 male) completed measures of verbal intelligence and locus of control, together with the Responsibility scale of the California Psychological Inventory and a student-written scale of Personal Responsibility. On the basis of correlational and multiple-regression analyses, it was found that Intelligence and Personal Responsibility were jointly the most efficient predictors of a subject's mean course grade, and that the latter was the best single predictor. These results add further support to Jackson's (1971) contention that naive item writers can create personality scales of equivalent or greater validity than more formal empirically-derived scales.

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Printing Errors in Kindergarten and the Prediction of Academic Performance

Simner

1982

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Kindergarten children printed from memory immediately after seeing each of the 41 reversible letters and numbers. The results showed that form errors, which involve some overall changes in the actual shape of the letter itself, correlated reliably with academic performance measured at the end of kindergarten as well as throughout grade I in reading, phonics, language, and math. This was not the case for the left-right reversal errors generated by these same letters and numbers. Moreover, the magnitude of the correlations suggested that these form errors could hold considerable promise as a means of identifying with reasonable accuracy children at risk for failure.

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The Predictive Validity of the Lorge-Thorndike Intelligence Tests at the Kindergarten Level

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Research on the preschool prediction of later academic achievement: A review

Research on the preschool prediction of later academic achievement: A review

Validity of an Intuitive Personality Scale: Personal Responsibility as a Predictor of Academic Achievement

Printing Errors in Kindergarten and the Prediction of Academic Performance

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