Performance of Navy service members erroneously enlisted as a result of the misnorming of ASVAB 6 and 7
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Authors
Boyer, John F.
Subjects
ASVAB (Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery)
AFQT (Armed Forces Qualification Test)
Norming
Mental Categories
Enlistment Standards
Performance
AFQT (Armed Forces Qualification Test)
Norming
Mental Categories
Enlistment Standards
Performance
Advisors
Elster, Richard
Date of Issue
1981-06
Date
Publisher
Monterey, California. Naval Postgraduate School
Language
en_US
Abstract
In January 1976, the Armed Services Vocational Aptitude
Battery (ASVAB) was adopted as the single DoD test to
determine qualification for enlistment and eligibility for
assignment to military occupations. Subsequent to the
implementation of the ASVAB, analyses of the test's norming
(i.e. conversion of raw scores to percentiles) were conducted
which revealed a norming error. As a consequence, a
potentially large number of individuals had been enlisted
into the Armed Forces who would otherwise have been ineligible
for military service had the test been correctly
calibrated.
This study examines the performance of a sample of nonprior
service males who, because of the misnorming of the
ASVAB, were enlisted into the Navy. In terms of survival on
active duty, completion of A-School, and attainment of paygrade
E4 or higher, those individuals who were erroneously
enlisted did not perform as well as those who would have
been eligible regardless of the norming error.
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Thesis
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Naval Postgraduate School (U.S.)
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