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  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: relationship of reading comphrehension and educational achievement levels to academy and field training performance of police cadets
  name:
    name part: Campa, Earl Emil.
    role:
      role term: creator
  name:
    name part: Barker, D. G.
    role:
      role term: degree committee member.
  name:
    name part: Carpenter, D. S.
    role:
      role term: degree committee member.
  name:
    name part: Johnson, G. R.
    role:
      role term: degree committee member.
  name:
    name part: Stenning, Walter F.
    role:
      role term: degree supervisor.
  name:
    name part: Texas A & M University
    role:
      role term: degree granting institution.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Academic theses
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: xx
    date issued: 1993
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xi, 202 leaves ; 28 cm
  abstract: Law enforcement professionals have attempted to identify characteristics which will assist their agencies in hiring the most qualified individuals to become police officers. However, studies over the past twenty years have indicated there is still disagreement over what characteristics most effectively predict future performance. In law enforcement, as well as other professions, outcomes of court cases have revealed the difficulty in identifying or measuring specific skills and abilities. The objective of this study was to examine the predictability of two variables often used as entry standards in law enforcement. Historically, reading comprehension and educational level have been linked to performance both during training and on the job. At the same time additional studies have questioned the strength of these two variables' relationship toward such outcomes. This study attempted to answer questions about the relationships which reading comprehension and educational level had to police academy training. Additionally, it examined the relationship these same two variables had to field training performance. Finally, it looked at the relationship between police academic performance and field training performance. The performance of a total of 746 subjects from the Houston Police Department was followed through their police academy training and field training during a six year period. Bivariate correlation and multiple regression statistics were used to analyze the data. Results of this study found reading comprehension a better predictor than educational level for future field training performance. However, this study did not rule out the use of education as an entry level criteria. Additional studies should be made using various types of law enforcement agencies. In addition, several factors which appeared during this study, including the relationship of skill training to reading comprehension, warrant additional research.
  note: "Major subject: Curriculum and Instruction."
  note: Vita.
  note: Ph. D. Texas A & M University 1993
  note: Includes bibliographical references.
  subject:
    geographic code: n-us-tx
  subject:
    topic: Law enforcement
    topic: Study and teaching
    geographic: Texas
    geographic: Houston
  subject:
    topic: Police training
    geographic: Texas
    geographic: Houston
  subject:
    topic: Prediction of occupational success
  subject:
    topic: Major curriculum and instruction
  subject:
    topic: Law enforcement
    topic: Study and teaching
  subject:
    topic: Police training
  subject:
    geographic: Texas
    geographic: Houston
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  identifier: https://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/DISSERTATIONS-1475872
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      url: https://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/DISSERTATIONS-1475872
  record info:
    record content source: TXA
    record creation date: 950424
    record change date: 20220103134909.0
    record identifier: in00001232065
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng