The Thorndike Intelligence Tests and academic grades

Abstract

"The aims of this study are: first, to discover the relation between the performance on the Thorndike Intelligence Examination and the academic grades over an entire college course of four years; and second, to attempt, by means of analyses and case studies, to find the conditions of correlation, and to relate the scholarship and test record of these students to their intelligence from other points of view." Considerable data are analyzed and a number of earlier reports are reviewed briefly. Seven points of conclusion are given, among them being the following: (1) There is a very moderate degree of correlation (0.39) between the Thorndike Examination score and the average academic grade for the first two years; (2) Other intellectual elements, exclusive of those measured by the Thorndike tests, are operating in at least many cases of superior scholarship. A list of references is given. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)