Grade point average, Scholastic Aptitude Test scores, race, and gender as predictors of preservice teachers' scores on four subsections of the National Teacher Examination

This study used a stepwise multiple regression analysis to identify influence variables which would predict pre-service teachers' scores on NTE assessments. Predictor variables included: SAT - Verbal scores, SAT - Mathematical Scores, grade point average, race, and gender.;The SAT - Verbal score proved to be the most powerful indicator variable for predicting scores on the three NTE core battery assessments. It was also the single best predictor for scores on the speciality areas assessments. The SAT - Mathematical score served as the best predictor for the mathematics speciality area assessment.;NTE scores on the communication skills and general knowledge skills subsections of the core battery assessments can be predicted to a high degree by the SAT test. This suggested that any additional information yielded by the requirement that preservice teachers be required to take the NTE communication skills and general knowledge skills portions of the core battery assessments is redundant.;Five influence variables were utilized to determine if one or more could serve to adequately predict preservice teachers' scores on the three core battery NTE assessments and the particular speciality area if one existed at the time' the teacher candidate was hired during the 1992-93 school year. All teachers hired in Maryland's twenty-four public school systems who attended one of eight University of Maryland system schools were part of this research study's population (n = 421) and were considered for this study.