Item Operating Characteristics of the Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery (ASVAB), Form 8A,

Abstract

The Profile of American Youth study carried out in 1980 by the Department of Defense with the cooperation of the Department of Labor obtained responses from a national probability sample of young people between the ages of 16 and 23 to the tests of the Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery (ASVAB). This report contains the results of item analyses of the eight power tests of the ASVAB, based on a random sample of 1187 respondents from the Profile study. The 1-, 2-, and 3-parameter logistic ogive item response models were fit to the data by marginal estimation methods. Indices of overall fit, item parameter estimates and their standard errors, item information indices, and test information and standard error curves are presented. (Author)

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Mar 01, 1984
Accession Number
ADA147131

Entities

People

  • R. D. Bock
  • R. J. Mislevy

Organizations

  • NORC at the University of Chicago

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Advanced Electronics
  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Accuracy
  • Algorithms
  • Arithmetic
  • Comprehension
  • Computer Programs
  • Data Science
  • Department Of Defense
  • Electronics
  • Errors
  • Ethnic Groups
  • Information Science
  • Mathematics
  • Probability
  • Psychology
  • Reliability
  • Standards
  • Statistics

Fields of Study

  • Education

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  • Computational Modeling and Simulation
  • Psychometric Testing or Psychological Assessment.