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The Prediction of Success of Three Ethnic Samples on a State Board Certification Examination for Nurses from Performance on Academic Course Variables and on Standardized Achievement and Study Skills Measures

Russell Haney

North Hollywood, California

William B. Michael

University of Southern California

John Martois

Los Angeles County Schools

For each of three samples of 207 Caucasians, 61 Mexican-Americans, and 53 Negroes in a nursing training program at a very large metropolitan hospital, validity coefficients of 15 predictor variables available prior to training and of 13 predictor variables obtained concurrently with training were calculated relative to each of five subtests of a state board certification examination for nurses. In addition, stepwise multiple regression analyses relative to each of the same five criterion measures as well as with respect to an average score on the five subtests of the certification examination were carried out for selected sets of predictor variables in each of the three samples. Standardized test measures involving reading skills were the most valid of the predictor variables obtained prior to nursing training, whereas total grade point average in program courses as well as scores on the National League for Nursing (NLN) Achievement Tests provided highest validity coefficients for each ethnic group. In terms of the predictor variables selected, the stepwise multiple regression analyses served essentially to reinforce the other correlational findings.

Educational and Psychological Measurement, Vol. 37, No. 4, 949-964 (1977)
DOI: 10.1177/001316447703700417
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