CCS Cooper Standards

Full name: Critical Concepts and Strategies, LLC Cooper Standards for Law Enforcement Physical Assessment (Scored)
Year: 2017
Population: US law enforcement candidates; cut-off values are re-published from the Cooper Institute 2013 monograph
Study type: Academy scoring document (field application of Cooper Institute norms)
Link: View study

About this reference

A publicly-hosted academy scoring document from Critical Concepts and Strategies, LLC (CCS; ccstest.com) that applies the Cooper Institute 2013 monograph's percentile tables to five law enforcement field tests: 1-minute push-ups, 1-minute sit-ups, 1.5-mile run, 300m run, and vertical jump. CCS does not publish its own source data — the cut-off values in the CCS tables are taken directly from the Cooper Institute's percentile charts. CCS adds a named-category overlay (Superior, Excellent, Good, Fair, Poor, Very Poor) at fixed percentile boundaries so that academy candidates can interpret a score as a pass/fail band rather than a raw percentile. Used as a reference by law enforcement training programmes that administer a 5-test Cooper-derived field battery without trunk flexibility or bench press.

Known limitations

Not an independent dataset: cut-off values are re-published from the Cooper Institute 2013 monograph
Inherits all limitations of the underlying Cooper Institute charts (mixed Cooper Clinic and Law Enforcement Studies populations; institutional, non-peer-reviewed source; undisclosed sample sizes)
Category band labels are a CCS convention layered on Cooper percentiles — they are not themselves validated against any outcome measure