Self Assessment and Academic Achievement

The work empirically establishes an association between self assessment (SA) and academic achievement (AA) in an attempt to validate current and future studies in the literature that speak to relationships between SA and AA. SA was defined as ‘the involvement of students in identifying standards and/or criteria to apply to their work and making judgements about the extent to which they met these criteria'' and AA was defined as ‘task oriented behaviour that allows the individual''s performance to be evaluated according to some internally or externally imposed criterion that involves the individual in competing with others, or that otherwise involves some standard of excellence''. Five hundred and fifteen participants (15 – 17 years old) drawn from 10 high schools spanning all levels of AA comprised the sample. Validation of this empirical relationship establishes a foundation and may act as a catalyst for accelerating future research in this much needed area.