A-School Attrition: Reasons and Results

Abstract

Navy A-school training provides the basic skills necessary for new recruits to become qualified in their ratings. Three-quarters of all recruits proceed directly from recruit training to A-school. The Navy makes a substantial investment in A-school training. In 1987, for example, Navy students spent more than 25,000 man-years in A-school. Not all students successfully complete the A- school pipeline they start. In technical ratings, failure rates have been estimated to be about 30 percent. This research memorandum examines the reasons for attrition and provides some preliminary evidence on what happens to students who leave A-school training prematurely. Keywords: Attrition, Failure, Job training, Naval personnel, Naval training, NITRAS (Navy Integrated Training Resource Administration System), Performance (Human), Qualifications, Ratings, Recruits, Schools, Statistical data, Tables(data).

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 01, 1988
Accession Number
ADA205858

Entities

People

  • Alan J. Marcus
  • Patricia E. Byrnes

Organizations

  • Center for Naval Analyses

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Attrition
  • Classification
  • Department Of Veterans Affairs
  • Descriptive Analytics
  • Job Training
  • Naval Personnel
  • Naval Training
  • Navy
  • Pipelines
  • Plastic Explosives
  • Ratings
  • Security
  • Statistical Data
  • Statistics
  • Students
  • Test Equipment
  • Training

Fields of Study

  • Education

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