| Summary: | University achievement is a highly relevant educational outcome with implications for students' academic and
professional futures. As the majority of students that drop out of university do so due to subjective reasons in contrast to a lack of
capability to handle the workload, a measure of subjective university achievement (complementing grade point average) is helpful
to enhance educational research on causes, correlates, and consequences of university success. This study aims to introduce a short
scale for assessing subjective academic achievement – the SAAS – and provide first results on its psychometric properties. Based
on two independent samples of university students, the internal consistency, factorial validity, and construct validity of the SAAS
are corroborated, suggesting the measure's administration in educational research on university success and related issues.
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