Air Force Officer Qualifying Test Form T: Initial Item-, Test-, Factor-, and Composite-Level Analyses

Abstract

The Air Force Officer Qualifying Test (AFOQT) is used to award scholarships to the United States Air Force (USAF) Reserve Officer Training Corps and to qualify applicants for officer commissioning through the ROTC and Officer Training School programs. The AFOQT also is used to qualify applicants for aircrew training as pilots, combat system operators, air battle managers, and remotely-piloted aircraft pilots, The purpose of this report is to document initial AFOQT Form T item-, test-, factor-, and composite level psychometric analyses. Data consisted of responses from USAF officer applicants who were administered either AFOQT Form T1 (N = 5,681) or Form T2 (N = 5,199) between 2015 and 2016. In general, both forms demonstrated acceptable psychometric properties. However, there were areas where improvements could be made. For example, item-level analyses revealed that the difficulty level for some (continued on next page)

Document Details

• Document Type: Technical Report
• Publication Date: Dec 01, 2016
• Accession Number: AD1027705

Entities

People

• John D. Trent
• Mark R. Rose
• Thomas R. Carretta

Organizations

• 711th Human Performance Wing

Tags

Communities of Interest

• Air Platforms
• Biomedical
• Human Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

• Air Force
• Air Force Facilities
• Air Force Research Laboratories
• Cognition
• Composite Materials
• Comprehension
• Consistency
• Data Science
• Department Of Defense
• Education
• Factor Analysis
• Flight Crews
• Flight Instruments
• Flight Training
• Government Procurement
• Governments
• Information Exchange
• Information Science
• Instructions
• Military Psychology
• Motor Skills
• Physical Sciences
• Psychology
• Remotely Piloted Vehicles
• Reserve Officer Training Corps
• Statistics
• Technical Information Centers
• Training
• Warfare

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• Psychometric Testing or Psychological Assessment.