Predicting success in a school of nursing

Abstract

For 80 girls entering a school of nursing, the average grade earned during the first 6 months served as the criterion of success with which were correlated high-school average and scores on the 5 tests used by the Nurse Testing Division of the Psychological Corporation. Intercorrelations were computed for the various test scores and high-school average. The Potts-Bennett Tests proved fairly effective in predicting success; the coefficient of correlation was .677. Addition of the other test scores or high-school average yielded very small increases. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved)