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Direct linkPark, Moonyoung – Language Assessment Quarterly, 2020
It has been over a decade since the International Civil Aviation Organization proposed Language Proficiency Requirements to improve aviation English proficiency and air safety through adequate aviation English tests. Yet, many of the aviation English assessment procedures appear to not meet international professional standards for language tests.…
Descriptors: Task Analysis, Traffic Safety, Air Transportation, Needs Assessment
Lee, Gus C.; And Others – 1982
The number of schools and students tested in the Department of Defense (DoD) High School Testing Program has declined since the program reached its peak in the school year 1974-75. Telephone interviews with school counselors indicated that the decline was due to school-related difficulties of test administration, lack of student interest, and the…
Descriptors: Armed Forces, Career Guidance, Educational Trends, High School Students
Minton, Henry L. – 1985
The association between Lewis M. Terman and the World Book Company is traced in order to gain insight about the role of test publishing in the testing movement. The test publisher assumes the position of an intermediary between the test developer and the educational administrator responsible for making decisions about test adoption. Terman began…
Descriptors: Ability Grouping, Armed Forces, Educational History, Educational Testing
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
Download full textCurran, Linda T.; Jordan, Linda A. – 1996
In the summer of 1996, the U.S. Armed Services will implement the computerized adaptive testing version of the Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery (CAT-ASVAB). When conversion is completed at the 65 targeted military entrance processing stations, about half the applicants will take this test version. This paper describes the efforts that…
Descriptors: Adaptive Testing, Aptitude Tests, Armed Forces, Computer Assisted Testing
Military Entrance Processing Command (DOD), North Chicago, IL. – 1989
This guide explains the Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery (ASVAB) and how it can help students prepare for a career. The ASVAB, sponsored by the Department of Defense, is a vocational aptitude battery consisting of 10 short tests that cover academic and occupational areas. The results of the 10 tests are combined to make composite scores.…
Descriptors: Ability Identification, Aptitude Tests, Armed Forces, Career Choice
Kilburn, M. Rebecca; Hanser, Lawrence M.; Klerman, Jacob A. – 1998
This document reports on the first segment of a project that estimates the determinants of individual enlistment decisions using the 1992 second followup of the National Educational Longitudinal Study (NELS). The NELS sample contains youths who were high school seniors in 1992. The project's first segment estimates scores on the Armed Forces…
Descriptors: Armed Forces, Career Choice, Comparative Analysis, Estimation (Mathematics)
Curran, Linda T. – 1996
The Department of Defense is developing norms for its Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery (ASVAB) and the newly created Interest Finder, a vocational interest inventory. The normative effort, called the 1997 Profile of American Youth (PAY97), will be undertaken as part of the Bureau of Labor Statistics' 1997 National Longitudinal Survey of…
Descriptors: Adaptive Testing, Adolescents, Aptitude Tests, Armed Forces
Doherty, Margaret, Comp.; MacLatchy, Josephine, Comp. – Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1924
The bibliography presented in this bulletin purports to cover the printed material issued in this country concerning intelligence and educational tests during the period from January 1, 1918 to June 30, 1922. It has been the purpose of the compilers to make the bibliography as useful to students and to practical school people as possible. To that…
Descriptors: Printed Materials, Psychological Testing, Educational Testing, Intelligence Tests
