Screening for Service: Aptitude and Education Criteria for Military Entry
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Eitelberg, Mark J.
Laurence, Janice H.
Waters, Brian K.
Perelman, Linda S.
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1984-09
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September 1984
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Human Resources Research Organization (HumRRO)
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In 1980, the Office of the Secretary of Defense and the Military Services, in cooperation with the Department of Labor, sponsored a large-scale research project to assess the vocational aptitudes of American youth. A national probability sample of approximately 12,000 young men and women, selected from participants in the National Longitudinal Survey (NLS) of Youth Labor Force Behavior, was given the military’s enlistment and job placement test, the Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery (ASVAB). This research endeavor, known as the “Profile of American Youth,” marked the first time a military qualification test, or any vocational aptitude test, had been given to a nationally representative sample. The Profile Study thus offered a rare opportunity to evaluate the cross-sectional character of military enlistees based on a national measure of vocational test performance. Screening for Service describes the results of a research effort that evolved from the Profile Study. Since the Profile Study sample was nationally representative, and it incorporated the scores of contemporary youth on a version of the ASVAB parallel to that currently used to screen military applicants, it was possible to estimate the numbers and proportions of American youth expected to qualify for military enlistment under existing standards. The military “participation rates” of American youth could also be calculated using enlistment eligibility rates of the general population in combination with information on enlistment behavior.
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Research was supported by the Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense (Manpower, Installations, and Logistics), under agreement with the Navy Personnel Research and Development Center and the Naval Postgraduate School.
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210 p.
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telberg, Mark J.; Laurence, Janice H.; Waters, Brian K.; Perelman, Linda S., Screening for Service: Aptitude and Education Criteria For Military Entry, Human Resources Research Organization, September 1988.
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Approved for public release, distribution unlimited
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This publication is a work of the U.S. Government as defined in Title 17, United States Code, Section 101. Copyright protection is not available for this work in the United States.