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Peer reviewedMayberry, Paul W.; Carey, Neil B. – Educational and Psychological Measurement, 1997
The validity of the Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery (ASVAB) in predicting mechanical job performance was studied with 891 automotive and 522 helicopter mechanics. The mechanical maintenance component of the ASVAB predicted hands-on performance, job knowledge, and training grades quite well, but experience was more predictive of…
Descriptors: Adults, Aptitude Tests, Experience, Job Performance
Peer reviewedDunbar, Stephen B.; And Others – Journal of Educational Statistics, 1986
This paper considers the application of Bayesian techniques for simultaneous estimation to the specification of regression weights for selection tests used in various technical training courses in the Marine Corps. It concludes that a hypothesis of complete generalization of the predictor-criterion relationship would only be retained for selected…
Descriptors: Bayesian Statistics, Clerical Occupations, Electrical Occupations, Estimation (Mathematics)
PDF pending restorationFischl, M. A.; And Others – 1979
The purpose of this research was to develop composites of subtests of the Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery (ASVAB) such that each composite score would be reliable and the various composite scores would be factorially independent of each other. Factor analysis was used to cluster the tests into composites based on the underlying…
Descriptors: Academic Ability, Aptitude Tests, Career Counseling, Clerical Occupations
