Some correlates of Naval promotional viability.

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Author
Lassiter, Ronald Lawrence
Date
1975-06Advisor
Elster, Richard S.
Second Reader
Senger, John
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This thesis focused on attempting to predict the promotional
histories of one hundred randomly selected U . S.
Naval Academy graduates who were commissioned in the U. S.
Navy in 1950.
Criteria used during promotion or selection board sessions
are described and the literature reviewed to see if these
criteria had been found to be important in previous military
and civilian studies. The data collected on the one hundred
men were comprised of biographical information including
five Naval Academy class standing variables and two variables
derived from judgments of photographs of the sample members.
These variables were used in analyses focused on predicting
promotional success in the Navy. The variable having the
highest correlation with promotion success was a Naval Academy
standing score called leadership. The relative standing of
all midshipmen in this standing score was based upon the
academic results achieved in one three-semester-hour course. .
However, no statistically significant relationship was found
between rank and the predictor variables used in this study.