Achievement, Aptitude, and Personality Measures as Predictors of Success in Nursing Training

Intellective and Non-Intellective Predictors of Success in Nursing Training

“…(A parallel analysis was carried out for the second sample of 27 trainees.) For standing on the items on the Ward Performance Scale the same normalized-rank method of conversion of scores to stanine scores as described by Haney, Michael, and Gershon (1962) was employed to adjust for differences in sizes of classes (usually 12 to 20 students) that were being supervised in Ward activities. It should also be noted that the magnitudes of the correlation coefficients are minimal in view of a marked restriction of range in scores upon the first six variables with respect to which students had to place at or above approximately the 50th centile relative to published twelfth grade norms.…”

“…Problem For a sample of 117 freshman trainees in student nursing for the academic year of 1962-1963, it was the major objective of this investigation to obtain cross-validation data for several of the cognitive and non-cognitive predictors that had been employed in a recent study for the 1961-1962 freshman class reported by Haney, Michael, and Gershon (1962) as well as in prior investigations cited in the bibliography of the same recent study. Several of the predictor variables of interest which were described in the recent study mentioned are listed in Table 1 (numbers 1 through 16) along with eight criterion variables which constitute grades in key courses (numbers 17-24) and along with two sets of ratings in five items on the Ward Performance Scale.…”