Achievement of freshman engineering students and the Strong Vocational Interest Blank

Abstract

93 students in the class entering Princeton in 1947 were the subjects in this study. The procedure involved obtaining the correlation of each scale on the Strong test with freshman average grade, and with an adjusted average grade. The average engineering student had relatively high interest in activities associated with occupations stressing scientific work and business sales and administration. 8 of the correlations between freshman average grade and the Strong scales were significant at the 5% level or better. They suggest that academic success for this group was directly related to interest in activities associated with men in scientific occupations, and inversely related to interest in activities associated with men in occupations stressing business detail and sales. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved)