The predictive power of age, educational level, selected test scores, and theory and clinical course grades for predicting job satisfactoriness and test performance for licensure for 91 practical nurses was determined. The National Test Pool examination, a standardized licensure test, was clearly the best predictor of Job Performance, Conformance, and General Satisfactoriness. Age reliably predicted Dependability and Educational level was negatively related to Dependability and Personal Adjustment. Previous test performance during training reliably predicted performance on the licensure examination (R2 = .66).
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