Author: Timothy T. Smith Publisher: ISBN: Category : Academic achievement Languages : en Pages : 80
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The purpose of this study is to determine the effect of different personality traits on performance at the US Naval Academy (USNA) throughout the entire military and academic curriculum. The study uses over 18,000 observations during a 15 year time period from 2002-2016. This study builds on previous research which focuses on more narrow performance measures that are typically restricted to academic performance in a single course or subject. The data set allows for performance to be measured in each of USNAs three mission areas (moral, mental, and physical) and provides insight into how certain personality attributes contribute to success in a rigorous military environment. I find that strong "judging" types, typically described as planned, decisive, and organized, perform statistically significantly better than their neutral counterparts in every performance category. Similarly, strong "perceiving" types, described as flexible, open and spontaneous, are found to perform statistically significantly worse than their neutral counterparts in every performance category. The study also finds that black students who are strong "extroverted" types, meaning they are oriented outwardly and dervie their energy from social interactions, perform statistically significantly better in overall order of merit, military order of merit, and academic order of merit compared to neutral students.
Author: Philip B. Smith Publisher: ISBN: Category : Machine learning Languages : en Pages : 31
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Psychological models of personality have used trait measures to index individuals with respect to specific traits or categorical types to bin individuals into defined personality types. Both of these approaches may be suboptimal for predicting performance. Categorical models rely on rough dichotomization of data and trait models may overfit variance to rigid traits and obscure trait interaction effects. This project compared predictions of midshipmen performance and outcomes at the United States Naval Academy, specifically comparing predictions derived from regression techniques with standard traits and type variables with predictions using machine learning techniques, such as k-nearest neighbors and boosted random forests. Using data from recent Naval Academy graduates (N = 725), we first applied traditional penalized regression techniques to predict performance, specifically academic and military order of merit at graduation, using standard personality traits, types, and values. These predictions served as the baseline for assessing the quality of prediction from the selected machine learning techniques. We next built, optimized, and analyzed machine learning models, finding that their accuracies were, at best, at the level of traditional penalized regression models. Finally, we examined the optimization process of the machine learning models to identify potential optimum dimensionalities for personality predictions, finding it matches currently accepted models of personality. While the machine learning models were more complex, computationally expensive, and less interpretable, we found they did not outperform regression models.
Author: Naval Postgraduate Naval Postgraduate School Publisher: CreateSpace ISBN: 9781511540216 Category : Languages : en Pages : 100
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This study examined the ability of three personality measures to predict midshipmen attrition at the United States Naval Academy. More specifically, the study examined the ability of the Myers Briggs Type Indicator and the Personal History Questionnaire to replace the Career Interest Score of the Strong Interest Inventory in the Naval Academy admissions formula and to better predict overall, voluntary, academic, and performance/conduct attrition. The data used were from the Naval Academy classes of 1995 to 2000. Logistic regression analysis was done using just the classes of 1995-1999. The class of 2000 was used in an out of sample prediction to test the validity of the study's attrition model. Results showed that the Career Interest Score is unable to predict attrition. Additionally, the addition of the MBTI and PHQ improved the predictive ability of the admissions formula for two of the four attrition variables modeled. The model was most effective in predicting voluntary attrition. Recommendations are made regarding the United States Naval Academy admissions policy and for future research in the subject area.
Author: Thomas F. Foster Publisher: ISBN: 9781423508830 Category : Languages : en Pages : 109
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This study examined the ability of three personality measures to predict midshipmen attrition at the United States Naval Academy. More specifically, the study examined the ability of the Myers Briggs Type Indicator and the Personal History Questionnaire to replace the Career Interest Score of the Strong Interest Inventory in the Naval Academy admissions formula and to better predict overall, voluntary, academic, and performance/conduct attrition. The data used were from the Naval Academy classes of 1995 to 2000. Logistic regression analysis was done using just the classes of 1995-1999. The class of 2000 was used in an out of sample prediction to test the validity of the study's attrition model. Results showed that the Career Interest Score is unable to predict attrition. Additionally, the addition of the MBTI and PHQ improved the predictive ability of the admissions formula for two of the four attrition variables modeled. The model was most effective in predicting voluntary attrition. Recommendations are made regarding the United States Naval Academy admissions policy and for future research in the subject area.
Author: Publisher: ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages : 0
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The Sixteen Personality Factors Questionnaire (16PF) and the Performance Evaluation Report (PER), two survey devices used by the U.S. Naval Academy were critically evaluated. The hypothesis that personality as measured by the 16PF could be used to predict future fleet performance as measured by the PER was investigated. This analysis suggested little that would indicate a relationship between personality and performance as they are measured by the two surveys. Performance and personality could be related, but the important aspects of these qualities perhaps are not being measured by the survey devices. The motive for seeking a predictive relationship was also addressed. Within the context of the Academy's current training program, the discovery of such a predictive relationship would have little benefit in assessing how well the Academy is preparing officers for fleet duties. A job descriptive inventory of junior officers duties, and evaluation of graduates in these areas would better satisfy that purpose. (Author).
Author: Robert John Schneller Publisher: Texas A&M University Press ISBN: 1603444173 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 458
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During the twentieth century, the U.S. Naval Academy evolved from a racist institution to one that ranked equal opportunity among its fundamental tenets. This transformation was not without its social cost, however, and black midshipmen bore the brunt of it. Blue & Gold and Black is the history of integration of African Americans into the Naval Academy. The book examines how civil rights advocates? demands for equal opportunity shaped the Naval Academy?s evolution. Author Robert J. Schneller Jr. analyzes how changes in the Academy?s policies and culture affected the lives of black midshipmen, as well as how black midshipmen effected change in the Academy?s policies and culture. Most institutional history is written from the top down, while most social history is written from the bottom up. Based on the documentary record as well as on the memories of hundreds of midshipmen and naval officers, Blue & Gold and Black includes both perspectives. By examining both the institution and the individual, a much more accurate picture emerges of how racial integration occurred at the Naval Academy. Schneller takes a biographical approach to social history. Through written correspondence, responses to questionnaires, memoirs, and oral histories, African American midshipmen recount their experiences in their own words. Rather than setting adrift their humanity and individuality in oceans of statistics, Schneller uses their first-hand recollections to provide insights into the Academy?s culture that cannot be gained from official records. Covering the Jim Crow era, the civil rights movement, and the empowerment of African Americans from the late 1960s through the end of the twentieth century, Blue & Gold and Black traces the transformation of an institution that produces men and women who lead not only the Navy, but also the nation.
Author: Kyle B. Beckman Publisher: Pickle Partners Publishing ISBN: 1786254034 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 132
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This thesis examines the impact that the dominant personalities of General Douglas MacArthur and Admiral Ernest King had in shaping Allied strategy in the Pacific during the Second World War. The concept of dominant personality is defined as containing three essential elements: arrogance, tenacity, and supreme competence. The lives of MacArthur and King are examined, demonstrating that the actions of each consistently reflected these characteristics, allowing them to dominate those around them. Three key decisions from the Pacific war are scrutinized for the impact of one or both of these dominant personalities. King and MacArthur affected these decisions in different ways. In the first, the decision to initiate carrier raids against Japan in early 1942, King acted unopposed in pushing his audacious plans through. The second decision was to invade Guadalcanal (Operation Watchtower) in August 1942. King and MacArthur drove this decision in parallel competition, each striving to begin offensive operations and each desiring to be in control. Finally, the long competition between the Central and Southwestern Pacific drives for primacy, culminating with the debate over invading Luzon or Formosa, is examined. In this case, MacArthur and King pursued mutually exclusive courses and stalemate nearly resulted.
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