Some Characteristics of Successful and Less Successful Overseas Community Development Advisers

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Abstract
The study was conducted to discover which, if any, tests or test items could predict competent performance of rural com munity development advisers in Southeast Asia. Seventeen trainees selected by the Agency for International Development to do community development work in Laos and Vietnam were tested and interviewed. Two years later, their supervisors were asked to rate their performance. On the basis of supervisors' ratings, the test and interview scores and ratings were compared for the successful and less successful. Only three of eleven test instru ments separated the most successful from the least successful. These three were the Terman Concept Mastery test, a Religious Concepts Inventory, and a general questionnaire on preferences, background and attitudes.

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