An 80-item self-report scale of academic curiosity was correlated with five measures of academic performance and teachers' ratings of students' curiosity for 611 undergraduates. Point biserial correlations of the items of the scale were also calculated and a factor analysis was carried out. Evidence for the validity of the academic curiosity scale is presented and discussed.
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