Predictive Avalidity

How to predict academic success is a topic of high interest for adolescents seeking to further their education. Various psychological studies have been performed in attempt to correlate how one’s personality can somewhat predict his level of academic success. Both personality and genetics play an important factor in any decision-making process, especially academically. Personality effects how individuals perceive things and genetics contribute to the depth to which one is able to process scholarly material. The Big Five personality traits are used as a broad form of predicting test scores and academic achievement for students. Depending on which personality traits students possess and portray more predominantly will predict the extent of academic
A topic of interest from the textbook for this course that was related to this study was the topic of predictive validity. As defined in the textbook for this course, predictive validity is based on the idea that what is being measured is able to predict what it theoretically should be able to predict. The hypothesis that was formed and stated prior to the completion of this study was indeed valid according to the book’s definition of predictive validity. In other words, the researchers who are responsible for this study did not form a hypothesis that would not theoretically be able to be proven by this study. Rather, the researchers formed a reasonable hypothesis, created a design and method of research to follow, gathered the necessary participants, and performed the study with accuracy to their respected hypothesis. Many times, it appears that researchers attempt to study a topic that seems highly unlikely to prove their hypothesis whatsoever. The data that is being measured in this study of predicting academic achievement based on genetics and personality is valid for a variation of predictions. Scholarly hypotheses, such as the hypotheses made for this study, should be able to be proven easily through measureable data and gathered statistics from empirical research and experiments. The desired evidence was collected from this study and proved that the predictions made at the initial start of the study were valid and held true to the null. The predicted results of this empirical research study were indeed valid, and further presented in a series of tables that included all of the necessary statistical analysis that was collected throughout this study. The results and final analysis held true and proved that genetics and personality traits do correspond with how well one performs