Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery (ASVAB) Correlational Analysis, ASVAB Form 2 versus ASVAB Form 5.

摘要

A total of 2,052 U.S. 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 vocational aptitude test batteries. Effects of fatigue, training, environmental factors, and proctorial variation were minimized by experimental design. An extensive program of optical scanning, computer analysis, inter-test comparisons, correlation matrix generation, factor analysis and equipercentile calculations was conducted. Three new tests in the larger battery (ASVAB Form 5) were vocationally oriented as opposed to scholastically oriented. Seven tests common to both batteries had reliability coefficients of 0.56 to 0.76. A new factor in vocational testing, tentatively described as 'attention to explicit rules,' was identified.