Predicting the academic success of students of the Faculty of Education, Damanhour University, from their performance on objective tests in educational and academic courses

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Educational psychology,Faculty of Education, Damanhour University

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The current research aimed to review the psychological literature about academic success, develop and standardize a battery to measure it among university students, and predict it from performance on objective tests in educational and academic courses for students of the Arabic Language and Science Divisions at the College of Education. The sample consisted of: Standardization sample: consisted of (265) students from the Social Sciences and English language divisions in the second year of primary education, and the basic sample: (128-117) students from the Arabic Language and Science divisions in the same year.
The research tools were: the academic success battery, the students’ scores of the basic research sample in the objective tests of the social psychology course (as an educational course) and the children’s literature and divisional plant courses (as academic courses).
The research revealed the following results: The academic success battery has good psychometric properties in terms of: construct validity, arbitrators'/ surface validity, exploratory factor validity, which resulted in eight factors, and confirmatory factor validity of the second degree for the eight dimensions that resulted from the exploratory factor analysis and discriminatory validity. Reliability and internal consistency are verified .
The performance of students in the objective test of the educational course does not predict their academic success for both the literary and scientific divisions. Students' performance in objective tests of academic courses predicts their academic success. Those courses contributed to it by 23.7% and 19% for the Arabic Language and Science divisions, respectively .

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