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Relationships Between an Impromptu Speech and Criteria of Military Success 1
Author(s) -
TUPES ERNEST C.,
BORG WALTER R.,
CARP A.
Publication year - 1958
Publication title -
personnel psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 6.076
H-Index - 142
eISSN - 1744-6570
pISSN - 0031-5826
DOI - 10.1111/j.1744-6570.1958.tb00026.x
Subject(s) - impromptu , psychology , test (biology) , fluency , applied psychology , aptitude , social psychology , developmental psychology , mathematics education , computer science , paleontology , biology , programming language
Summary T his report is one in a series describing the evaluation of members of two Air Force Officer Candidate School (OCS) classes by means of assessment techniques administered during a three and one‐half day period at the beginning of each class. This paper is concerned with relationships between individual performance on a five‐minute Impromptu Speech problem, criteria of OCS success, and other measures of military aptitude employed in the assessment. The results of the study indicate that the Impromptu Speech test can be administered and scored by inexperienced personnel with a minimum of training, and it requires only about ten minutes of time per subject. Scores yielded by the Impromptu Speech test are satisfactorily reliable and sufficiently valid against later criteria of performance to permit fairly efficient screening if used as a selection device. Relationships between the Speech scores and other assessment measures provide estimates of its construct validity and indicate that persons who do well on the Speech test are those with relatively high Verbal Fluency, Effective Intelligence, and Social Maturity.