Use of Selected Factors as Predictors of Success in Completing a Secondary Teacher Preparation Program

Abstract

A multiple regression analysis was performed on all EPPS and SVIB scales to determine those scales which could be used to predict success in a secondary teacher preparation program for 207 females and 88 males. Significant discriminant function equations for fourteen male predictor variables and for eight female predictor variables were obtained. Thus, for both males and females it was possible to discriminate between those who had completed the teacher preparation program and those who had not; for applicants it was possible to classify them as likely or unlikely to complete the teacher preparation program. Cross-validation studies, however, with larger samples would be needed to establish generalizable equations that would permit realization of a comparatively high degree of accuracy of classification of applicant members in new samples.