Predicting Success in Trade and Vocational School Courses: Review of the Literature

Predictors of Success in High School Level Vocational Education Programs: A Review, 1954–1967

“…Ilow, then, do these general trends fit previous findings? First Patterson ( 1956) also noted considerable variation in leveI of correlation from study to study. This is a fact of life.…”

Chapter III: Development and Applications of Tests of Intellectual and Special Aptitudes

“…In a review of the pertinent literature Patterson (70) pointed out that comparatively little has been done on the prediction of success in trade-school training although the problem is as important as the prediction of success in college work because of the number of people involved. The best predictors have been tests of verbal intelligence, mechanical information, and spatial ability.…”

The predictive validity of measured interest for Navy vocational training.

“…While considerable research has been performed relating interest inventory scores to academic and professional criteria, very little work has been done relating measured interests to subsequent choice of or training success in technical or trade school programs. Patterson (1956), in his review of the literature in the prediction of success in trade or vocational courses, indicated that almost no work had been done with interest tests. Some studies in military settings have been reported.…”