PROJECT TALENT—The Identification, Development, and Utilization of Human Talents

Flanagan, John C.; Dailey, John T.

doi:10.1002/j.2164-4918.1960.tb02591.x

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“…This index is based on five characteristics: father's education, mother's education, education of oldest older sibling (if present), and at the time the respondent was an adolescent: father's occupation, and the availability of reading material in the home. 4 This index is similar to the ones used in other major studies of educational outcomes such as Project TALENT (Flanagan, Dailey, Shaycoft, Orr, & Goldberg, 1964) and the Youth in Transition Project (Bachman, 1970). Since the index is scaled so that large values represent high socioeconomic status, we hypothesize that it will exhibit a positive net relationship to the several variables measuring the likelihood of persistence in college.…”

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Factors Affecting Individual Persistence Rates in Undergraduate College Programs

Kohen

Nestel

Karmas

1978

American Educational Research Journal

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This study uses a sample drawn from the National Longitudinal Surveys of young men attending college in the 1960's. Some of the principal conclusions of the multivariate analyses are: (1) Factors determining persistence vary widely with the stage of the undergraduate career; (2) race and parental SES bear no net relation to dropping out;(3) the impact of ability declines with progress toward graduation; (4) entering college in a two-year institution is inversely associated with persistence. These and other findings demonstrate that much previous research has perpetuated erroneous inferences about dropping out of college, not the least of which is that the process can be modeled in a single equation representing the likelihood of graduation by any given group of freshmen.Notwithstanding a vast literature on the achievement of success in higher education, there are major gaps in knowledge about the determinants of x

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Factors Affecting Individual Persistence Rates in Undergraduate College Programs

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Nestel

Karmas

1978

American Educational Research Journal

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“…Moreover, the PTPI also showed good predictive validity with respect to a variety of outcomes, including academic achievement, self-perceived health, participation in athletics, cultural activities, and organized social activities (Flanagan et al, 1964). For example, the Mature Personality scale predicted higher achievement and aptitude scores, as well as better health, participation in more social activities, and a higher intention to attend college.…”

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“…Although a validation study of the PTPI has never been published in a peer-reviewed outlet, initial attempts at construct validation showed that the PTPI related as expected to other personality trait measures popular at the time, including the California Psychological Inventory (Gough, 1957 ) and the Edwards Personal Preference Schedule (Edwards, 1953 ). Moreover, the PTPI also showed good predictive validity with respect to a variety of outcomes, including academic achievement, self-perceived health, participation in athletics, cultural activities, and organized social activities (Flanagan et al, 1964 ). For example, the Mature Personality scale predicted higher achievement and aptitude scores, as well as better health, participation in more social activities, and a higher intention to attend college.…”

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Establishing the validity and reliability of the Project Talent Personality Inventory

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Project Talent is a national longitudinal study that started in 1960. The original sample included over 440,000 students, which amounted to a 5% representative sample of high school students across the United States. Previous research has not yet established the validity and reliability of the personality measure used in this study, that is, the Project Talent Personality Inventory (PTPI). Given the potential interest and use of the PTPI in forthcoming research, the goals of the present paper were to establish (a) the construct and predictive validity and (b) the internal consistency and test-retest reliability of the PTPI. This information will be valuable to researchers who might be interested in using the PTPI to predict life course outcomes, such as mortality, occupational success, relationship success, and health. Study 1 found that the 10 sub-scales of the PTPI showed good internal consistency reliability, as well as good construct and predictive validity. With the use of several modern personality measures, we showed how the 10 PTPI scales can be mapped onto the Big Five personality traits, and we examined their relations with health, well-being, and life satisfaction outcomes. Study 2 found that the 10 PTPI scales showed good test-retest reliability. Together, these findings allow researchers to better understand and use the PTPI scales, as they are available in Project Talent.

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“…The practical value of these concepts is suggested by the figures in TABLE 1. This table gives the career plans of a representative sample of the nation's high school seniors [2]. These eight occupational fields are collectively the choice of about half of the twelfth grade students.…”

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The Effective Use of Manpower Resources

Flanagan

1963

The Personnel and Guidance Journal

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PROJECT TALENT—The Identification, Development, and Utilization of Human Talents

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Factors Affecting Individual Persistence Rates in Undergraduate College Programs

Factors Affecting Individual Persistence Rates in Undergraduate College Programs

Establishing the validity and reliability of the Project Talent Personality Inventory

The Effective Use of Manpower Resources

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