A classification project for third specialist course sailors- a follow-up study (I)

Abstract

This paper is concerned with the follow-up study of Third Specialist Qualifying Course Examination of 118 sailors of one Naval School, which is a highly technical one. The standard scores made by sailors on VGIT, PGIT, MCT, MAT and MASYT were analysed, separately, in terms of their TSQC Examination results, and critical scores or chances of success established. These were found to be roughly zero standard score in all cases. The predictive validates of these tests at their respective critical scores were found to be .48 for VGIT, 1.00 for PGIT, .20 for MCT, .58 for MAT and 1.00 for MASYT, each test considered separately. The productive validity for the entire classification procedure taken as a whole was found to .93 which is very highly satisfactory indeed. The need of individual diagnostic testing and counseling in case of Fit-Fails and Unfit-Fails, has been stressed. The findings reported in this paper, it is emphasized, are at present only tentative as they relate to one school and that too, of a highly selected nature. The more representative and stable findings, it is hoped, would emerge in due course when the data from similar other follow-up studies are pooled together.