Academic achievement in high school as predicted from the California Psychological Inventory.

Gough, Harrison G.

doi:10.1037/h0046186

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“…Despite the large amount of evidence supporting their applied value in both work and educational settings (Barrick et al, 2001;Burch & Anderson, 2008;De Raad & Schouwenburg, 1996;Ferguson et al, 2000;Gough, 1964;Hough, 1992;Hough, Eaton, Dunnette, Kamp, & McCloy, 1990;Ones, Dilchert, Viswesvaran, & Judge, 2007;Salgado, 2003), personality variables are sometimes criticized for having modest predictive validities. A variety of reasons have been suggested.…”

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Personality scale validities increase throughout medical school.

Lievens

Ones

Dilchert

2009

Journal of Applied Psychology

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Admissions and personnel decisions rely on stable predictor-criterion relationships. The authors studied the validity of Big Five personality factors and their facets for predicting academic performance in medical school across multiple years, investigating whether criterion-related validities change over time. In this longitudinal investigation, an entire European country's 1997 cohort of medical students was studied throughout their medical school career (Year 1, N ϭ 627; Year 7, N ϭ 306). Over time, extraversion, openness, and conscientiousness factor and facet scale scores showed increases in operational validity for predicting grade point averages. Although there may not be any advantages to being open and extraverted for early academic performance, these traits gain importance for later academic performance when applied practice increasingly plays a part in the curriculum. Conscientiousness, perhaps more than any other personality trait, appears to be an increasing asset for medical students: Operational validities of conscientiousness increased from .18 to .45. In assessing the utility of personality measures, relying on early criteria might underestimate the predictive value of personality variables. Implications for personality measures to predict work performance are discussed.

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Personality scale validities increase throughout medical school.

Lievens

Ones

Dilchert

2009

Journal of Applied Psychology

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“…The boys and girls were also administered the CPI (Gough, 1957;1963) which consists of 480 items. Due to insufficient time in the assessment program, completed inventories were not obtained from 5 of the high achievers.…”

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Psychological characteristics of high school male and female potential scientists in comparison with academic underachievers

Davids

1966

Psychol. Schs.

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Brown University has undertaken two programs of special education for secondary school students-one for bright, academically successful, boys and girls who have demonstrated outstanding potential for careers as scientists, the other for boys who possess the intellectual potential for high achievement but who are failing academically. This paper reports some personality, motivational, and social characteristics revealed by these young men and women who are travelling smoothly

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“…Still, Gough's (1952) Good Impression Scale may be considered most closely related to Kuder's (1970) WBI Scale. The Good Impression Scale has not been evaluated as a moderator, but it was a suppressor in the prediction of college attendance (Gough, 1968), scholastic achievement (Gough, 1964) and leadership (Gough, 1969).…”

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The Kuder Occupational Interest Inventory as a Moderator of its Predictive Validity

Hansen

Zytowski

1979

Educational and Psychological Measurement

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A measure of the extent to which the Kuder Occupational Interest Inventory (KOIS) was predictive of occupational membership for an individual was correlated with KOIS item and scale scores. KOIS items and scales were shown to moderate the 12 to 19 year predictive validity of the KOIS. Women with nontraditional interests were found to be relatively less predictable by the KOIS. THE classic validation model requires measurement of the association between a predictor and a criterion while ignoring intervening factors. Alternatively, methods have been developed to identify relatively enduring variables which affect validity, called &dquo;moderator variables&dquo;. Particularly, an inventory can serve as a moderator of its own validity. In the present study KOIS items and scales are shown to moderate the 12 to 19 year predictive validity of the KOIS.A wide range of variables may be moderators of vocational interest inventories: the appropriateness of the criterion, occupation engaged in, as reflected by job satisfaction (Strong, 1955;Zytowski, 1976); environmental factors, such as the job market; a lack of capacity to perform the occupation of one's interests because of inadequate intelligence, poor physical health or lack of skill in interpersonal relationships (Strong, 1955); lack of motivation to answer seriously (Note 1); demographic characteristics, such as sex, age, college enrollment, enrollment in a vocationally relevant curriculum, occupational level, and eventual entry into a science or technology course (Zytowski, 1976). Deviant subjects are not as predictable as more usual people. The 'The authors thank G. Frederic Kuder for making the data available to them.

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Academic achievement in high school as predicted from the California Psychological Inventory.

Cited by 66 publications

References 6 publications

Personality scale validities increase throughout medical school.

Personality scale validities increase throughout medical school.

Psychological characteristics of high school male and female potential scientists in comparison with academic underachievers

The Kuder Occupational Interest Inventory as a Moderator of its Predictive Validity

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