Controlled association scores and engineering success.

"Six different scores from a controlled association test were] studied, using a… sample of 687] experienced engineers… . The test asks Ss to write, in a limited time, as many synonyms as they can to eight common words. None of the six scores… appears to be related to job placement, but the five… based on the number of common responses given seem to be related to job success… most of the validity coefficients… are well below… 20… . Although not spectacularly high, such a… coefficient… is promising in comparison with over 50 other variables… studied in ETS research on engineering graduate placement tests." (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)