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Corps MOSS will include: Motor Transportation (35Xx). and Aircraft Maintenance
(61Xx). Finally, the Navy ratings will include: Air Traffic Controller (AC),
Operations Specialist (OS), Fire Controlman (FC), Electronics Technician/Advanced
Electronics Field (ET (AEF)), Radioman (RM), Engineman (EN), Aviation Structural
Mechanic - Structures (AMS), Aviation Electrician’s Mate (AE), Aviation Electronics
Technician (AT), Aviation Fire Control Technician (AQ), Aviation Antisubmarine
Warfare Technician (AX), Aviation Ordnanceman (AO), Gunner’s Mate - Phase I
(GMG), Machinist’s Mate (MM), and Electrician’s Mate (EM).
Data collection for the Joint-Service ECAT Validation study began in February
1990 and will continue through August 1991, with analyses, documentation, and
reviews scheduled for completion in July 1992.
Navy ECAT Validation Study
The purpose of this study is to determine the incremental validity of new
predictor tests for augmenting ASVAB for selected Navy ratings. It will provide
additional information to the Joint-Service ECAT Validation study described above for
assessing the cost-effectiveness of computerized testing.
The experimental test battery includes six tests, followed by a seven-item
questionnaire. Average administration time is 2 l/2 hours. The six tests are: (1)
Mental Counters, (2) Sequential Memory, (3) Integrating Details, (4) Space
Perception, (5) Spatial Reasoning, and (6) Perceptual Speed. The short questionnaire
is designed to obtain information on examinee fatigue, motivation, and computer
experience.
Data have been collected from the following Navy schools: Operations
Specialist (OS), Aviation Structural Mechanic - Structures (AMS), Aviation
Ordnanceman (AO), Aviation Electronics Technician (AT), Aviation Fire Control
Technican (AQ), Aviation Antisubmarine Warfare Technician (AX), Gunner’s Mate -
Phase I (GMG), Machinist’s Mate (MM), Propulsion Engineering Basics, Aviation
Machinist’s Mate (AD), Boiler Technician (BT), Hospitalman (HM), and Hull
Maintenance Technician (HT).
Data collection for the Navy ECAT Validation study has been completed.
Analyses, documentation, and review of the results should be completed in December
1990.
CONCEPT OF OPERATIONS
The concept of operations for the CAT-ASVAB System has not been finalized.
In a previous study, four alternative deployment strategies were selected for special
attention: (1) Centralized CAT-ASVAB testing at MEPS, with elimination of all METS
testing; (2) High Volume Site Testing (all MEPS and 273 METS); (3) use of a CAT
screening instrument at the military recruiting stations, with subsequent full CAT-
ASVAB testing of screened personnel at MEPS, and (4) administration of CAT-ASVAB
in mobile vans, testing at MEPS and fifty high-volume METS. The current
operational scenario involving the administration of P&P-ASVAB in all MEPS and
METS provided a baseline case for comparison purposes.
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