Relation of congruence in student-faculty interests to achievement in college

Administered to 110 1st-yr military college students and 88% of the faculty (N = 44) the Holland Vocational Preference Inventory (VPI), the EPPS, and the SVIB to explore the relationship between congruency of student-faculty interests to academic achievement. Results indicate gross support for the congruency hypothesis on the EPPS and the personality-type code profiles on the VPI. Although promising, the findings do not yet warrant the use of these tests for cadet selection. The definition of the environment used in this study serves as a useful alternative to A. W. Astin and J. L. Holland's (see 38:2) environmental assessment technique, when the school (or organization) is small or homogeneous in composition.