Technical Report - International Military Testing Association

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e. Grader in an urlfer couree wizh aptitude rauoved.
(Thie is the reeidual which ie basically einilar
to the retfo achievwsent iodbx and wa6 tentatively
ueed a6 e mexeure of motiwtion.)
The analpele proceeded in three etepe. Piret, fntercorrslotione
meong the ten variablee were obtained (cf. Table 3). Secondly, the
three aptitude meaeures vare partfxled out of each of the reaefning
variable6 which wore thn intercorrelated u partial8 (cf. Table 4).
Leetly, multiple corroletione vere canputed batween the raeldualfred
motivation and echool grade predictor6 on the one hand rad the reeidualixed
eriterlon variablea on the other hand (cf. Table 5). A8 you
��� � ee, In tha lattar table, all the predictor raeiduale combine to
predict both criterion roelduale very well. The maximnn multiple lo
a70 for criterion #I, aud A4 for criterion i2, however, the prisnxry
variablee involved in the multiple partial correlation were the peer
rating residual and the fundemeotale echool grade reeiduele; i.e.,
4.123 and 8.123, which yfeldcd~emltiple partial correlation8 cf .67
and .41, reepectlvely.
Table 3
Intotcorrelatio=a Ffeme and Standard
Deviation6 of Verfater - (H-196)
Ueaeure 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Me&ii S.D.
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6.
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10.
cm 29 29 11 -09 04 15 36 33 31
AR1 04 00 -10 03 08 38 20 -01
HECH 16 08 10 05 22 43 38
Peer Rat inge 28 19 00 30 59 34
Self Rating6 -03 -10 09 19 04
check Llet of 02 11 22 22
Student Behav.
Plctorlel Motlv 09 01 03
mch Fund 57 40
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Welding Unit
tiote: Decixul point6 aeitted
55.61
55.54
56.26
29.24
30.20
97.71
7.18
81.70
79.37
82.34
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6.61
5.82
6.76
9.60
9.49
11.47
2.27
6.44
4.89
5.24
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