The roles of grit and intelligence in predicting students' academic Achievement

  This research was carried out to investigate the role of grit and its dimensions as well as intelligence in predicting students' academic achievement. The method of this research was correlational. The population was 5200 students of the sophomore and higher students of Bu-Ali Sina University whom 379 were chosen with Multi-stage cluster sampling. The research tool was the 12-question grit questionnaire of Duckworth (2007) and the culture-independent three intelligence scale of Cattell (1940). The reliability of grit questionnaire in the present research was 0. 836 by Cronbachʼs alpha Cefficient. The findings showed that grit and intelligence can predict the academic achievement by%26, separately grit by%43 and intelligence by%18. about grit subscales, it was as follows: consistency in interst %32 and perseverance of effort %24. Grit and intelligence are related to academic achievement by 0/48 and 0/31, respectively. about grits subscales it was as follows: Consistency in interst 0/44 and perseverance of effort 0/39. It is included that grit is a more significant factor than intelligence in predicting academic achievement. This fact as a new view can show the need for considering students' grit by teachers