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Direct linkStefan 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
Peer reviewedCebi, Merve – Journal of Human Resources, 2007
This paper examines the effect of teenagers' outlooks--specified as their locus of control--on educational attainment and labor market outcomes. I replicate the study of Coleman and DeLeire (2003) and test the predictions of their theoretical model using a different data set--National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY). The findings fail to…
Descriptors: Locus of Control, Human Capital, Educational Objectives, Outcomes of Education
Download full textMorgan, 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
