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Download full textTheokas, Christina – Education Trust, 2010
Many educators comfortably embrace the myth that the military will enlist any and all high school graduates who are interested. However, a new analysis from The Education Trust reports that too many of the nation's high school graduates have not been adequately prepared to serve in the U.S. Army. In "Shut Out of the Military," the…
Descriptors: Secondary Education, High School Graduates, Armed Forces, Vocational Aptitude
Peer reviewedCronbach, Lee J. – Personnel and Guidance Journal, 1979
The Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery measures general ability, trade-technical experience, a spatial factor, and a clerical factor unlike traditional measures of clerical aptitude. Established procedures for test review are inadequate for generating an informed opinion regarding a test that is heavily promoted and that changes from year…
Descriptors: Aptitude Tests, Career Counseling, Career Planning, High School Students
Department of Defense, Washington, DC. – 1984
This guidebook provides information about the Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery (ASVAB). It is written for high school students to encourage them to use the ASVAB in their career exploration. The booklet is written in a question and answer format. Sample test items and an answer sheet for the ASVAB subtests are included. The areas…
Descriptors: Aptitude Tests, Armed Forces, Career Planning, Occupational Tests
Pastrana, Ronald R. – 1975
The Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery (ASVAB), developed by the Department of Defense, is a test geared toward career planning. This instrument has proved useful to other populations as well as the military. This is especially true for high school students, who during their final years of school must decide on what educational or…
Descriptors: Aptitude Tests, Career Guidance, Career Planning, High School Students
Adkins, E. Robert – 1976
Form 5 of the Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery (ASVAB) was administered to over 35,000 male and female students in grade nine through twelve. The sample was selected to be representative of the students in the national high school population. Normative percentile tables were developed for each subtest and composite for each grade and…
Descriptors: Aptitude Tests, Females, High School Students, Males
Vanderploeg, Arie J.; Mueller, Siegfried G. – Measurement and Evaluation in Guidance, 1978
ASVAB, a vocational aptitude battery designed by the Department of Defense and being offered to high schools at no cost, is examined. The instrument is found to fall short of the claims made for it, but the test may be useful for certain purposes. (Author)
Descriptors: Aptitude Tests, Armed Forces, Career Counseling, Occupational Tests
Peer reviewedDouglas, Barbara E. – Journal of Studies in Technical Careers, 1986
The author explores ways in which the Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery might provide the college admissions counselor with an additional set of test scores that, when used with scores from other standardized tests, might provide a more valid comprehensive evaluation of a student's academic potential. (Author/CH)
Descriptors: Academic Aptitude, College Admission, College Applicants, College Entrance Examinations
Jensen, Harald E.; And Others – 1976
The Department of Defense directed that the military services move toward the use of a common aptitude battery for satisfaction of their personnel selection requirements. The content of existing service classifications were studied during the initial phase of battery redesign. Elements from the Army Classification Inventory, the Navy Vocational…
Descriptors: Aptitude Tests, Difficulty Level, High School Students, Military Personnel
Department of Defense, Washington, DC. – 1984
The Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery, Form 14 (ASVAB-14) is a multiple aptitude test battery designed for use for civilian, as well as military, career counseling. This manual is designed for use by school guidance counselors in administration and interpretation of results of the ASVAB-14. The 1984 revision of this instrument includes…
Descriptors: Academic Aptitude, Aptitude Tests, Career Counseling, Career Guidance
Harris, Randolph K.; Huckell, Raymond K., Jr. – 1974
This Technical Research Report gives correlations between student scores on the General Technical (GT) composite of the Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery and cumulative grade point averages (GPAs). Data were collected on 911 juniors and seniors selected from a sample at 22 secondary schools in the San Antonio metropolitan area. The GT…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Armed Forces, Correlation, Grade Point Average
Pastrana, Ronald R. – 1976
The central theme of this report underlines the complexity and multifaceted problems surrounding any attempt to define relationships between special aptitudes and success in an occupation. However, relationships between special aptitudes and success in occupational training are typically more definitive and have a higher correlation. This is…
Descriptors: Aptitude Tests, Career Choice, Competency Based Education, High School Students
Winefordner, David W. – 1989
This booklet is designed to assist counselors and teachers in working with students and others who have completed the Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery (ASVAB). It discusses how ASVAB results of academic, verbal, and math ability may be used as aptitude factors for identifying and exploring worker trait groups, as identified in the Worker…
Descriptors: Career Choice, Career Education, Career Exploration, Career Planning
Trotter, Thomas V.; Steadman, David G. – 1985
Results are summarized for a number of tests administered to secondary school students in Idaho. A description of each test and the students tested is provided, as well as the purposes of the test and a brief summary of results. Two tests administered especially in Idaho are included. The Idaho Proficiency Test, a criterion referenced test of…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Aptitude Tests, College Entrance Examinations, Minimum Competency Testing
Fletcher, John; Ree, Malcolm J. – 1976
A total of 2,052 US high school boys and girls, selected from 10 geographical regions, were tested on consecutive half days using the Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery (ASVAB) Form 2 and ASVAB Form 5. Effects of fatigue, training, environment and proctorial variation were minimized by experimental design. An extensive program of optical…
Descriptors: Aptitude Tests, Armed Forces, High School Students, Measurement Instruments
Bower, George L.; And Others – 1975
This Technical Research Note is designed for reference by high school counselors, service test administrators, and educational specialists as a supplemental guide to the interpretation of Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery (ASVAB) results in local guidance and counseling programs. This study examined the validity of specific ASVAB…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Armed Forces, High School Students, Occupational Tests
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