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Academic achievement or academic performance is the outcome of education — the extent to which a student, teacher or institution has achieved their educational goals or made the best of their academic aptitude.

Assessment of academic achievementEdit

It is measured by actual performance in academic tests, examinations or continuous assessment.

There is no general agreement on how it is best tested or which aspects are most important — procedural knowledge such as skills or declarative knowledge such as facts.^[1]

A number of achievement measures have been developed including:-

• ACT
• Iowa Test of Basic Skills
• Ohio Graduation Test
• Prairie State Achievement Exam
• Stanford Achievement Test (SAT)
• Wechsler Individual Achievement Test
• Wide Range Achievement Test
• Woodcock Johnson Psychoeducational Battery

Achievement to high school levelEdit

• Academic Performance Index.
• General Educational Development Tests
• High School Equivalency Diploma

Achievement in particular areasEdit

• Mathematics achievement
• Reading achievement
• Science achievement

Relationship between intelligence and academic achievementEdit

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Contents 1 Assessment of academic achievement 1.1 Achievement to high school level 1.2 Achievement in particular areas 2 Relationship between intelligence and academic achievement 3 See also 4 References & Bibliography 5 Key texts 5.1 Books 5.2 Papers 6 Additional material 6.1 Books 6.2 Papers 7 External links

See alsoEdit

• Gradepoint average
• Achievement
• Achievement age
• Achievement potential
• Achievement gap
• Academic overachievement
• Academic underachievement
• College academic achievement
• Academic achievement motivation
• Academic achievement prediction
• Academic aptitude
• Academic failure
• Academic self concept
• Educational attainment level
• Educational standards
• Learning ability
• School graduation
• School learning
• School transition

References & BibliographyEdit

1. ↑ Annie Ward, Howard W. Stoker, Mildred Murray-Ward (1996), "Achievement and Ability Tests - Definition of the Domain", Educational Measurement, 2, University Press of America, pp. 2–5, ISBN 9780761803850 

Key textsEdit

BooksEdit

PapersEdit

Additional materialEdit

BooksEdit

PapersEdit

• Google Scholar

External linksEdit