The Relationship of Cognitive Abilities Scores with Social Studies Achievement

Abstract

For a sample of 219 elementary school pupils in the fifth grade, intercorrelations were investigated among four subtest measures: (a) Metropolitan Achievement Test (MAT)—Social Studies, (b) Cognitive Abilities Test (CAT)—Verbal, (c) CAT—Quantitative, and (d) CAT—Non—Verbal. The CAT Verbal score yielded the highest correlation of .73 with the MAT measure.