COMPARISON OF NAVY RECRUITS WITH MALE HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS ON THE BASIS OF PROJECT TALENT DATA.
Abstract
Over 8000 Navy recruits at Great Lakes and San Diego were given the Project Talent Test Battery in addition to the Navy Basic Test Battery, in order to equate the two batteries. The equating allows the direct conversion of the Navy's re quirements expressed in terms of its Basic Test Battery into terms based upon the whole popula tion of American youth. The findings are the following: (1) Navy recruits score lower, on the average, than Grade 12 boys in all areas. (2) It has been found in Project Talent that the association between scholastic aptitude and college entrance is very high. (3) It has also been found in Project Talent that non-high school graduates contain a fairly high percentage of low mental level students. Thus, if the Navy were to discontinue its policy of selective re cruiting of the high school graduates, many of the recruits would be of relatively low mental level. (4) Project Talent results provide evi dence that the Navy is not setting its cutting score on the AFQT unreasonably high, and thereby screening out too many potential recruits. (5) In the four tests mentioned above, the recruits score about as high or slightly higher, on the average, than Grade 11 boys and in most of the other tests they are not far below them. (Author)
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Jun 01, 1962
- Accession Number
- AD0409433
Entities
People
- Clinton A. Neyman
- John T. Dailey
- Marion F. Shaycoft
Organizations
- American Institutes for Research