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Burkhauser, Susan; Hanser, Lawrence M.; Hardison, Chaitra M. – RAND Corporation, 2014
The U.S. military services have traditionally used a tiering system, including education credentials such as high school diplomas, in combination with Armed Forces Qualification Test (AFQT) scores to help gauge the likelihood of a recruit persevering through his or her first term of service. But what about less traditional credentials, such as…
Descriptors: Military Personnel, Credentials, Secondary Education, Home Schooling
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Arkes, Jeremy – Economics of Education Review, 1999
Examines whether employers can infer information about workers' precollege abilities from acquired college credentials and value attainment of credentials because they signal these abilities. Analysis of 1993 National Longitudinal Study of Youth data reveals that employers value attainment of a bachelor's degree for these reasons. Academic degrees…
Descriptors: Ability, Associate Degrees, Bachelors Degrees, Credentials