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Brown, Cheryl J.; Kincaid, J. Peter – 1982
This study was conducted to establish Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery (ASVAB) cutoff scores for the assignment of the appropriate level of the Gates-MacGinitie Reading Tests to individual Navy recruits. The Word Knowledge (WK) and Paragraph Comprehension (PC) scores were combined to provide a composite score useful as a predictor of an…
Descriptors: Aptitude Tests, Armed Forces, Basic Skills, Military Training
Jones, Paul L.; Armitage, Bonnie J. – 1984
Having implemented a testing procedure using the Gates-MacGinitie Reading Tests to identify recruits with reading deficiencies, the United States Navy conducted a study comparing the performance of recruits on three different reading tests. A total of 716 recruits completed the comprehension portion of the Gates-MacGinitie Reading Tests, the Tests…
Descriptors: Adult Literacy, Armed Forces, Comparative Analysis, Military Personnel
