Education and prediction of military school success

Abstract

A table is presented showing validities obtained for the first form of the Airman Classification Battery and comparative validities obtained for years of education. The table also shows the respective contributions of education to the multiple R of the battery for predicting final grades in various Air Force technical schools. Validation data of these 32 technical schools indicate that the ability tests measure nearly all the valid variance to be found in the educational level variable as well as much variance not accounted for by years of education. The average increase in the multiple correlation when education is added is .012, and the most it adds is .06. Although in many cases the validity for educational level is above .50, the multiple R for the tests is at least .15 higher. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved)