Student-Made Academic Predictions1

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Three prediction perspectives are clinical, actuarial, and student. The student self-made prediction would seem to be the most relevant to the development of short term therapeutic programs designed for underachievers. Indeed, the concept of student-made academic predictions can be particularly useful in trying to ascertain those identifiable characteristics that contribute to underachievement. The first objective of this study was to describe a measure of student-made academic predictions. The second objective was to examine the relationships between these predictions and measures of college aptitude and of college freshman grades. Student-made academic predictions were measured using the College Opinion Survey (COS), an adaptation of the Michigan State General Self Concept of Ability to Learn Scale (SCOA). COS is an 8-item inventory including both academic self-acceptance and academic self-evaluation ratings. Individuals are to respond in terms of various academic reference groups. (Information was collected on two samples of college freshman students and on a sample of college sophomore students.) The findings indicate that student-made predictions as measured by the COS are related to college achievement even when differences in college aptitude are controlled.

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