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Scholarship:
Quality of learning environment
Transcript evaluation for math/
science performance
Intellectual motivation
Teacher evaluations
Evaluation of applicant's statement
Course difficulty
Score recommended
Score recommended
Score recommended
Scholarships are offered based upon the rank order of all
applicants. Adjustments may be necessary to meet specifically
assigned state scholarship allocation targets, active duty,
female, and minority targets, or Navy physical qualifications.
Summarv
The current selection board process has worked extremely well.
The structure built into the evaluation system provides the
consistency of applicant evaluation desired in a 6-month
selection board cycle with varied selection board membership.
The cost of that consistency, a limitation in selection board
flexibility, appears to have had a positive effect as well.
Selection board members feel comfortable working within the
more structured system and selection or non-selection decisions
are much more defensible. More importantly, several measures
of incoming freshman class performance indicate that the
process improved the selection board's ability to identify
those most likely to perform well once enrolled in the NROTC
Program. The performance of the scholarship students entering
the program since the revised selection procedures were fully
implemented has improved, with the average freshman year grade
point average increasing from 2.89 in 1988 to 3.0 this past
year. Freshman attrition has also decreased dramatically.
Twenty-two percent of the freshman class attrited from the
program during the 1988 academic year. Freshman attrition for
the 1990 academic year dropped to 14 percent. The selection
board average applicant score dropped to less than 50 percent
of the total points available for awarding. This ensures that
truly exceptional applicants can be awarded enough points for
scholarship selection.
References
Mattson, J.D., Neumann, I., & Abrahams, N.M. (1986).
Development of a revised composite for NROTC selection
(NPRDC TN 87-7). San Diego: Navy Personnel Research and
Development Center.
Owens-Kurtz, C-K., Borman, W.C., Gialluca, K-A., Abrahams,
N.M., & Mattson, J.D. (1989). Refinement of the Navy
Reserve Officer Traininq Corps (NROTC) scholarship
selection composite (NPRDC Tech. Note TN 90-l). San
Diego: Navy Personnel Research and Development Center.
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