Semantic fluency including task switching predicts academic success in medical school.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

The future state treaty on the admission of students to German medical schools calls for a variety of selection criteria among which at least two are required to be independent of school leaving grades. Against this background, the present study investigated achievement motivation and executive functions as predictors of academic success in medical school.

Material and methods

Second year medical students were assessed for executive functioning by using the Tower of London Test (ToL), a German version of the Controlled Oral Word Association Test (COWAT), the Trail Making Test (TMT-A) and for motivation by using the Achievement Motivation Inventory (AMI). Academic success was evaluated twofold, i) whether the first state exam (M1) was passed at the earliest possibl

SUBMITTER: Kaufmann S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7771681 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature