Validation Study of Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery (ASVAB) SelectorComposites: Basic Electricity and Electronics (BEE) Schools and Their Class 'A' Schools for the Electronics Occupational Group

摘要

The purpose of this study was to validate ASVAB composites for the 11 ratings ofthe Electronics (OG) Occupational Group. The ASVAB consists of the following 10 tests: General Science (GS), Arithmetic Reasoning (AR), Word Knowledge (WK), Paragraph Comprehension (PC), Numerical Operations (NO), Coding Speed (CS), Auto and Shop Information (AS), Mathematics Knowledge (MK), Mechanical Comprehension (MC), and Electronics Information (EI). Verbal (VE) is composed of WK and PC. This study was requested because of high attrition rates in the follow-on class 'A' schools and the merging of the BEE prerequisite schools into the follow-on Class 'A' schools. The study recommends (I) retaining the operational selector composite and minimum qualifying score, AR + MK + EI + GS = 218, and (2) conducting expectancy analyses after the BEE and follow-on Class 'A' schools are merged to determine if the 218 minimum qualifying score is adequate.