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The ability of the Slosson Intelligence Test (SIT) to predict academic achievement was assessed by using three samples of pre-kindergarten pupils from three successive years in a large midwest school district. At the beginning of the kindergarten year, the Screening Test of Academic Readiness (STAR) was administered to all three samples. Obtained SIT-STAR correlations ranged from .184 to .689. At the beginning of the first grade, the Stanford Early School Achievement Test (SESAT), Primary Battery II, was administered to two samples of pupils. The SIT-SESAT correlations ranged from .296 to .653. At the beginning of the second grade, the Stanford Achievement Test (SAT), Primary Battery I, was administered to one sample of pupils. The SIT-SAT correlations ranged from .392 to .586. All of the 102 correlations were statistically significant. The SIT appeared to be most predictive of STAR Total and Numbers scores; of SESAT Mathematics, Word Reading, Aural Comprehension, and Environment scores; and of SAT Total Battery, Total Auditory, Vocabulary, and Mathematics Concepts scores. Test-retest reliabilities, obtained on all three samples over a time period of seven months, ranged from .689 to .778. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER] |
