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The Armed Forces Qualification Test, the screening test used by all the services, must provide both a measure of general military trainability and measures of specific aptitudes. Following the research design for previous forms, experimental test items in four content areas developed by the separate services were administered to 3000 Armed Forces personnel for item analysis and item selection. Final forms were then administered to standarization samples representative of the mobilization population as a basis for conversion of test scores to percentile norms. AFQT 7 and 8 correlated substantially with preceding operational forms (r = .89 - 90) and are satisfactory alternate forms for screening. Correlation of AFQT 7-8 with years of formal education (r = .53) was slightly less than for the previous forms. Because of the high degree of equivalence of the two forms (r = .94) established in samples totaling 600 cases, a single conversion table was established for AFQT 7 and 8. Based on experimentation, instructions for administering AFQT 7 and 8 have been made shorter and simpler than for previous forms, with no loss in test effectiveness. (Author).
Research effort resulted in the implementation of a number of operational measures of military trainability: successive forms of the Armed Forces Qualification Test (AFQT) and the Enlistment Screening Test (EST) and supplementary screening measures for more specific aptitudes, the Army Qualification Battery (AQB); and tests for women applicants, the Armed Forces Women's Screening Test (AFWST), Women's Enlistment Screening Test (WEST), and Women's Army Classification Battery (WACB). With the introduction of a number of new and replacement tests during FY 1962-63, task activity turned to new approaches to screening problems and to contributions of screening activities to classification and other manpower management functions. Research plans were formulated to study seasonal and regional fluctuations in AFQT score distributions, the aptitude composition of the civilian manpower pool, new approaches to the detection of deliberate failures, feasibility of shortened screening tests, and practicability of automated testing.
The paper presents a feasibility study of presenting the Armed Forces Qualification Test (AFQT) as four separate subtests rather than as one continuous test as a means of reducing possible distortion in mental measurement. An operational form of AFQT was restructured from current spiral omnibus form (successive blocks of items from four content areas) to separate subtest form. The experimental test and operational AFQT 7B were both administered to 900 examinees at AFES, selected to be representative of the mobilization population. Results on the two tests were compared primarily with respect to equivalence of total and subtest score distributions, and secondarily with respect to rate of completion of the subtests. Results were then compared with corresponding statistics for two equivalent operational forms, AFQT 7A and 8A, based on data obtained in a standardization sample. It was concluded that there is no significant difference between the spiral omnibus format of the AFQT 7B and the separate subtest format of the experimental qualification Test.