DEVELOPMENT OF LITERACY SCREENING SCALES FOR AFQT 7 AND 8 FAILURES

Abstract

Literacy screening devices (VA keys) have been used with operational forms of the Armed Forces Qualification Test to identify various degrees of literacy. In the event of lowered standards of acceptance during mobilization, these scales would be available for categorizing those men who were sufficiently literate in E to go into basic training or who could become marginally literate with special literacy training. The present study describes the research by which literacy screening scales were developed for use with AFQT 7 and 8. Keys based on the easiest 24 items (half verbal and half arithmetic reasoning) of AFQT were selected and cutting scores set so as to classify as marginally literate the same proportion of input groups as did the prior VA keys for AFQT 5 and 6.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 1963
Accession Number
AD0411227

Entities

People

  • A.g. Bayroff
  • Alan A. Anderson

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Human Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Arithmetic
  • Army Personnel
  • Basic Training
  • Coefficients
  • Department Of Defense
  • Education
  • Government Procurement
  • Governments
  • Law
  • Literacy
  • Mobilization
  • Qualifications
  • Reasoning
  • Standardization
  • Standards
  • Statistical Analysis
  • Training

Fields of Study

  • Education

Readers

  • Brain and Cognitive Science; Experimental Psychology; Cognitive Neuroscience
  • STEM Education
  • Systems Analysis and Design