A Study of State Certification Exam Results for Florida Police and Correctional Recruits in Relation to Grade-Level Equivalency
| Autor: | Jeanne B. Stinchcomb, W. Clinton Terry |
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| Rok vydání: | 1995 |
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Medical education
Relation (database) media_common.quotation_subject education 050901 criminology 05 social sciences Law enforcement Certification Variance (accounting) Basic skills State (polity) Reading (process) 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences 0509 other social sciences Psychology Law Social psychology 050104 developmental & child psychology media_common Criminal justice |
| Zdroj: | Criminal Justice Policy Review. 7:223-243 |
| ISSN: | 1552-3586 0887-4034 |
| DOI: | 10.1177/088740349500700301 |
| Popis: | Although the high school diploma is almost universally required for criminal justice employment, it has become widely discredited as no longer being a meaningful indicator of reading, writing, or computational abilities. This study examines one state's response to this discrepancy through minimum competency testing for police and correctional recruits undergoing entry-level training. Multiple regression techniques are used to determine: (1) to what extent demographic variables are predictive of recruit's basic skills scores; and (2) to what extent basic skills scores are predictive of performance on the state certification examination required for criminal justice employment. Findings indicate that demographic variables are relatively weak predictors of recruits' abilities in reading, writing, and mathematics. Moreover, contrary to expectations, considerably more of the variance in certification exam performance can be attributed to the test-taker's discipline (law enforcement or corrections) than to their basic skills scores. Possible reasons for this unexpected outcome are explored. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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