Sex Differences

In this study, locus of control and IQ were compared to assess the power ' of each as a predictor of performance on academic and non-academic tasks. Four locus of conrcl scales: the Intellectual Achievement Responsibility Sale, the Academic AChievement Accountability Questionnaire, the Retter I-E scab the /Origin-Pawn measure and the Iowa Tests of Basic Skills were gr admifiistered.to a sample of 74 fifth grade children over a 2-week period. Following.this test procedure, the subjects were aped to?erform a motor6task (pasting stars in circles), a counting task (for Which the subjects had an option of selecting the level of task difficulty), a blockstacking task, and a practice test on th problems followed bya math problems-task for which sgbject could select difficulty level. The performance measures were admi istered over a period of 1 week.-Multiple regression analyses showed that prediction of performance was contingent on sex Of the child- and task. The best / predictor for academic related tasks was IQ; whol