Shortening of Defense Language Aptitude Battery

Abstract

The Defense Language Institute, Foreign Language Center (DLIFLC) is the proponent for the Defense Language Aptitude Battery (DLAB), used in screening recruits for aptitude to learn foreign languages. DLIFLC is attempting to shorten DLAB without decreasing its reliability or validity. Item analysis data was used to plan eleven possible shortening strategies with different number of items deleted from original test. One hundred sixty-four answer sheets were rescored and recorrelated with a foreign language course grade after items had been deleted according to each strategy. Tests from another sample will also be rescored and recorrelated with the criterion using each of the test shortening strategies in order to cross-validate the original results.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 1981
Accession Number
ADP001383

Entities

People

  • John W. Thain

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Air Force Facilities
  • Audio Tapes
  • Education
  • Enlisted Personnel
  • Foreign Languages
  • Instructions
  • Language
  • Reliability
  • Specialists
  • Students
  • Training

Fields of Study

  • Education

Readers

  • Defense Acquisition Program Management
  • International Journalism and Media Studies.
  • Psychometric Testing or Psychological Assessment.