Arbeitspapier

What Grades and Achievement Tests Measure

Intelligence quotient (IQ), grades, and scores on achievement tests are widely used as measures of cognition, yet the correlations among them are far from perfect. This paper uses a variety of data sets to show that personality and IQ predict grades and scores on achievement tests. Personality is relatively more important in predicting grades than scores on achievement tests. IQ is relatively more important in predicting scores on achievement tests. Personality is generally more predictive than IQ of a variety of important life outcomes. Both grades and achievement tests are substantially better predictors of important life outcomes than IQ. The reason is that both capture personality traits that have independent predictive power beyond that of IQ.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 10356

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity
Thema
achievement tests
grades
personality traits

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Borghans, Lex
Golsteyn, Bart H.H.
Heckman, James J.
Humphries, John Eric
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
(wo)
Bonn
(wann)
2016

Handle
Letzte Aktualisierung
10.03.2025, 11:43 MEZ

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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Borghans, Lex
  • Golsteyn, Bart H.H.
  • Heckman, James J.
  • Humphries, John Eric
  • Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)

Entstanden

  • 2016

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