Fairness in Employment Testing: Validity Generalization, Minority Issues, and the General Aptitude Test Battery.

Defined as persistence and passion for the achievement of long-term goals, grit is considered vital in determining success within academic contexts. Whilst scales do presently exist to measure grit as a holistic construct, no scale currently exists to measure academic-specific grit. The aim of the present study, therefore, was to develop a new scale for the measurement of academic grit. The newly developed scale, titled the Grit Inventory (GI), was assessed for psychometric soundness utilizing a sample of 109 undergraduate psychology students from The University of Queensland, Australia. Results showed the GI to have sound validity and good internal consistency. Nine of the scale’s twelve items had acceptable item discrimination indices. It was proposed that the GI be used in conjunction with ability tests to determine university admissions, granted that future research could demonstrate predictive validity for the scale. Keywords: grit, grittiness, persistence, academic, academic grittiness, academic grit.

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Sarah Bonell

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Creating a New Scale for the Measurement of Academic Grittiness