STRATEGIES FOR PREDICTING ADJUSTMENT OF AFQT CATEGORY IV NAVY AND MARINE CORPS PERSONNEL,
Abstract
Four major points summarize the findings of studies for Category IV Marines and sailors. First, AFQT score is a valid predictor of an enlistee's performance and adjustment in military service. Category IV enlistees are inferior to average enlistees on a variety of measures of military adaptation. Second, many Category IV enlistees are able to render effective military service. On the basis of sampling of higher level Category IV personnel who entered the service in 1960 and 1961, seventy-three per cent of Marines were found to be effective performers, while sixty-five per cent of sailors rendered effective service. Third, civilian educational achievement was found not only to be uniquely related to four-year military effectiveness for both of the services, but to be the most important, by far, of all the biographical predictors studied. And fourth, it was hypothesized that differences in effectiveness rates for Category IV enlistees who entered the Navy and Marine Corps in 1960 and 1961 were more a function of differing personnel and administrative policies than a function of differences in the calibre of enlistee input. (Author)
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Oct 01, 1968
- Accession Number
- AD0681012
Entities
People
- James D. Phelan
- John A. Plag
- Walter L. Wilkins