Predicting First Year Achievement Of Air Force Academy Cadets Class Of 1964 PDF Download

Candidates for each Air Force Academy class are required to establish their qualifications by taking a battery of selection tests. Those who are admitted are given a battery of experimental tests as part of a program for the development of officer selection and classification instruments. Predictive validities are determined for both batteries at the end of the fourth (freshman) class year against academic and nonacademic criteria of interest to Academy personnel. In the class of 1965 the criteria were the Academic Standard Score, the Military Rating (successor to the Cadet Effectiveness Rating), the Extracurricular Activities Standard Score, the Composite Standard Score, and Early Motivational Elimination. It was found that the experimental battery contains valid tests for each criterion, and that the selection battery contains valid tests for each criterion except Early Motivational Elimination. The experimental tests add to prediction from the selection battery of each criterion except the Academic Standard Score. The best multiple validity coefficients range from .31 for prediction of Early Motivational Elimination to .60 for prediction of the Academic and Composite Standard Scores. Tests common to the classes of 1964 and 1965 have similar validities and distribution statistics in the two classes. (Author).