Predictive Validity of the Air Force Officer Qualifying Test for Non-Rated Officer Specialties.
The Air Force Officer Qualifying Test (AFOQT) is used to qualify applicants for officer commissioning and aircrew training programs. The current study examined its predictive validity for 14 officer technical training courses for which there are no additional AFOQT minimum qualification requirements...
| Publicado en: | Military Psychology Vol. 22; no. 4; pp. 450 - 465 |
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| Formato: | equations & formulas research tables/charts Journal Article |
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Taylor & Francis Ltd
Oct-Dec2010
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=ccm&AN=105117563&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: ccm uiTerm: 105117563 longDbName: CINAHL Complete uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: dissinfo: jinfo: jid: 08995605 7MP jtl: Military Psychology issn: 08995605 maglogo: N pubinfo: dt: Oct-Dec2010 vid: 22 iid: 4 pid: 377 pub: Taylor & Francis Ltd place: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania artinfo: ui: 105117563 54419566 10.1080/08995605.2010.513261 105117563 ppf: 450 ppct: 15 formats: fmt: @attributes: type: P tig: atl: Predictive Validity of the Air Force Officer Qualifying Test for Non-Rated Officer Specialties. aug: au: Carretta TR affil: Air Force Research Laboratory, Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio sug: subj: Instrument Validation Military Personnel Human Questionnaires Correlation Coefficient Reliability ab: The Air Force Officer Qualifying Test (AFOQT) is used to qualify applicants for officer commissioning and aircrew training programs. The current study examined its predictive validity for 14 officer technical training courses for which there are no additional AFOQT minimum qualification requirements beyond those for officer commissioning. Sample sizes ranged from 16 to 2,190 with a mean and median size of 753 and 319 officers. Ninety percent (63 of 70) of the observed correlations between the AFOQT composites and average technical training grades were statistically significant. Meta-analyses were conducted to determine whether the AFOQT validities were generalizable across training specialties. Analyses were done on the observed data, after correction for range restriction, and after correction for both range restriction and criterion unreliability. The pattern of validities was similar for all three meta-analyses. The lower bound of the 95% confidence interval and the 95% credibility interval around the weighted mean validities were greater than zero for all five AFOQT composites supporting its utility for making personnel selection decisions for these jobs. The Verbal composite had the lowest and the Academic Aptitude composite had the highest weighted mean validity. The weighted mean of the validity coefficients across training specialties ranged from .261 to .326 for the observed data, .322 to .387 for the range-restriction corrected data, and .360 to .433 for the fully corrected data. Additional efforts are required to examine the generalizability of the results for a broader range of occupational specialties and to set minimum qualifying scores. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: equations & formulas research tables/charts Journal Article ougenre: Article language: English refInfo: holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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