The purpose of this paper was to investigate whether or not the use of a biographical inventory would be a feasible and viable adjunctive means of making more accurate predictions of student success in programs of upper-division and graduate study in speech pathology and audiology. During the past years, biographical inventories have been found to be predictive of creativity, performance as a military officer, performance in varied occupations, and academic performance. It was hypothesized that a biographical inventory could be developed which, when used in conjunction with the existing academic predictors of Grade Point Average and Graduate Records Examination scores, would add to the established selection instruments. As a means of identifying and distinguishing among several levels of competency of students, a student evaluation form was constructed and validated. Items cores from a 257 item biographical inventory were correlated with scores obtained from the student evaluation form and a 52 item biographical inventory for speech pathology and audiology students was developed. Admissions criteria data, student evaluation form scores and biographical inventory scores were placed in two step-wise multiple regression equations and analyzed statistically. Results indicate that biographical factors appear to be of importance to undergraduate success in programs of speech and hearing therapy. Student success in the more rigorous programs of graduate study appears to depend much more on academic ability. Disparate results indicate that the use of a biographical inventory as an adjunctive academic predictor should be approached with caution until further studies can be conducted.

本研究主要目的為發展一套有系統、適合用來甄選壽險推銷員的傳記式問卷，並進一步探討該問卷的信度以及其對於壽險推銷員表現的同時效度。 本研究之傳記式問卷共計十個向度，研究者以此為預測變項，探討本問卷與壽險業務員表現的關係。其中，以職等、任期、個人所得、保單成交件數、離職傾向、公司認同及工作滿意七個效標來代表業務員的表現。 本研究正式施測人數713人，有效樣本686人，其中，任期超過一年者390人，為本研究之效度分析樣本。結果顯示，本研究所編製之傳記式問卷內部一致性信度約為.6左右(N=686)，再測信度則約為 .8 (N = 31) 。同時效度方面，以職等、任期、個人所得、保單成交件數、離職傾向、公司認同及工作滿意七個效標，針對北南不同地區業務員，分別求取其迴歸係數。就北部地區而言(N=268)，效度係數中數為.45 ；就南部地區而言(N=132)，效度係數中數為.44。最後研究者提出本研究之限制，與學術研究及實務應用之建議。 / Although biographical information have been shown to be valid predictorsin selection,they have rarely been used in Taiwan, especially in practical field. Toward this end, 713 life insurance salesmen were asked to fill in the biographical inventory to provide personal life history data and 7 easures of the salesmen's performance (tenure,job level, earnings, the number of dealing, intent to leave, identification with the company, and job satisfaction)and 686 were valid. Totlally there are 101 items which can be divided to ten .dimensions in the inventory. The Cronbach alpha value is about .6 (N=686), and retest reliability is about .8 (N=31). Multiple regression analyses of the the factors scores against each of criterion easures of perfromance yield median correlation of .45 (N=268) for the Nouth Taiwan,and .44 (N=168) for the NorthTaiwan. Regression weights were nterpreted to explain the differentialimportance of the factors to the difference performance. The result of the study were interpreted as contributing to the enhanced understanding ofthe life history antecedents of salesmen's performance.