Accession Number:

AD0755169

Title:

The Validation of the Strong Vocational Interest Blank for Predicting Naval Academy Disenrollment and Military Aptitude

Descriptive Note:

Final rept.

Corporate Author:

NAVAL PERSONNEL AND TRAINING RESEARCH LAB SAN DIEGO CA

Personal Author(s):

• Abrahams, Norman M.
• Neumann, Idell

Report Date:

1973-02-28

Pagination or Media Count:

34.0

Abstract:

Despite rigorous selection procedures, approximately one-third of the officer candidates admitted to the Naval Academy disenroll before being commissioned. The present research sought to examine the usefulness of the Strong Vocational Interest Blank SVIB for improving the selection of Naval Academy midshipmen. SVIBs have been administered since 1967 to applicants andor entering Naval Academy midshipmen and analyzed to determine their value in predicting disenrollment and military aptitude. Three separate interest scales were empirically developed to predict motivational disenrollment, academic disenrollment, and military aptitude. The scales were evaluated for both their individual predictive effectiveness and, where possible, for their contribution to existing selection procedures. All three scales yielded significant and useful relationships with their respective criteria in cross-validation samples. The empirically-developed scales also provided significant and useful cross- validated increments beyond the levels of predictive accuracy attained with the present composite.

Descriptors:

• *APTITUDE TESTS
• *NAVAL PERSONNEL
• ATTRITION
• MOTIVATION
• PREDICTIONS
• SELECTION

Subject Categories:

• Psychology
• Personnel Management and Labor Relations

Distribution Statement:

APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE