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Stefan Lorenz – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This dissertation develops and applies sophisticated Item Response Theory (IRT) methods to address fundamental measurement challenges in cognitive testing, focusing on the Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery (ASVAB) data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY). The first chapter implements a confirmatory multidimensional IRT…
Descriptors: Human Capital, Item Response Theory, Vocational Aptitude, Armed Forces
Morgan, William R. – 1983
The National Longitudinal surveys (NLS) of Labor Market Behavior have been conducted by the Center for Human Resource Research at Ohio State University and supported by the Department of Labor since l966. In this paper, data from the fifth and newest NLS cohort, a national cohort of 12,686 youth who were aged 14-21 in 1979, are discussed.…
Descriptors: Academic Records, Aptitude Tests, Cohort Analysis, Data