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Full Length
Research Paper
Development
and validation of academic-success barrier battery
Animasahun, R.A.
Department of Guidance and Counselling, University of Ibadan,
Ibadan.
E-Mail: animarotimi@yahoo.com
Received 21 August, 2010; Accepted 29 October, 2010
The paper discussed the scientific processes for the
development and validation of the Academic-Success Barrier
Battery (ASB2) for measuring and remediating
students’ self created obstacles to their academic-success.
The sample for the study was 1,200 randomly selected
secondary school-going adolescents in Nigeria, comprising
males and females. Their ages ranged between 12 and 21years,
with a mean of 16.5years. The internal consistency for the
14 subscales ranged between .6600 and .8770, while the
Cronbach alpha (a)
was between .7709 and .9317 for the subscales; and the
coefficient of the full scale was .7975. The significant
inter-factor correlation coefficient obtained attested to
the construct validity of the scales. The relevance of the
inventory to psychologists, school counselors, all kinds of
researchers and other stakeholders were discussed.
Keywords: Academic-Success, battery, reliability,
validity, internal consistency.
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