A comparison between the Tennessee selfconcept and the Scholastic aptitude test for the prediction of academic success

The purpose of this study was to discover: (A) Whether the Tennessee Self-Concept Test would predict academic success better than the Scholastic Aptitude Test. (B) Whether Tennessee Self-Concept Test would add to Scholastic Aptitude Test as a predictor of academic success.The subjects were 102 first quarter Freshmen English students enrolled at Ball State University during the Fall Quarter of 1974. The predictor variables studied were: Scholastic Aptitude Test - verbal, Scholastic Aptitude Test -mathematical and Tennessee Self -Concept Test the counseling form. All the 14 scores on Tennessee Self-Concept Test, self criticism, total-P scores, Row 1-identity, Row 2-self satisfaction, Row 3-behavior, Column 1-physical self, Column 2-moral self, Column 3-personal self, Column 4-family self, Column 5-social self, Total variability score, Column total, Row total, and D-distribution score, were included. The criteria of success was the final grade point average.In order to find the statistical significance of the variables studied as a predictor of academic success, step wise multiple regression was applied.The result of this study indicated that (A) the single variable that offered the best information for predicting academic success was Scholastic Aptitude Test-verbal; (B) only one variable on Tennessee Self Concept Test, the personal self, was significant as a predictor of academic success; (C) the combination of variables on Scholastic Aptitude Test and Tennessee Self-Concept Test was test d. Only three variables were found to be significant as a predictor of academic success: SAT-verbal, Column 4-the family self, and Column 3-personal self.Thesis (Ed. S.