The intent of this research was to determine whether a complete psychological test battery was needed to determine if an individual is capable of successful job placement. If the stated goal of rehabilitation is to produce a successful rehabilitant, perhaps one test, or one subtest, out of the entire psychological battery is as efficient a predictor of success as an entire psychological workup. Thus, more time, money, and manpower can be spent in the rehabilitative process.Success was defined as a client being offered services, accepting such services, completing employment that was in line with the training received and maintaining that employment for a six-month period.Failure was defined as a client completing the entire program of testing, accepting offered services and not completing a program of vocational training.Data for the study was collected from adults who had voluntarily come to regional offices of the Indiana Division of Vocational Rehabilitation between the years 1979 and 1982. Statistical analyses were done on 199 clients. Most of the 199 rehabilitants were given the following battery of tests: Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale, Wide Range Achievement Test, Peabody Individual Achievement Test, Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory, Self Directed Search or StrongCampbell Interest Inventory. It was decided not to use the Peabody Individual Achievement Test or the Strong Campbell Interest Inventory because they limited sample size.The psychometric data were all post hoc. They were analyzed by a Statistical Package for the Social Sciences and by Stepwise Regression. References were considered statistically significant at the .05 level. F at 1,200 degrees of freedom was 3.80.The Wide Range Achievement Test, subtest 4 (spelling grade level) was significant in best predicting success at the .05 level with an F score of 5.04524. The S scale (social interest) in the Self Directed Search was the next significant subtest in predicting success at the .05 level with an F score of 4.78224. The C scale (conventional) in the Self Directed Search was the next significant in best predicting success at the .05 level, with an F score of 6.17417. The best multiple predictors of success are subtest 4 of the WRAT (F, 4.956) combined with S (F, 10.900) and C (F, 8.588) scales of the SDS. The F level or tolerance level was insufficient for further computation.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:BSU/oai:cardinalscholar.bsu.edu:handle/181192 |
| Date | January 1984 |
| Creators | Stolarski, Alexander C. |
| Contributors | Dimick, Kenneth M. |
| Source Sets | Ball State University |
| Detected Language | English |
| Format | 3, ix, 144 leaves ; 28 cm. |
| Source | Virtual Press |
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