I__. - International Military Testing Association

Empirical Scorinq Key
Prescreening Adjudication
Issue Case Status
Type of Discharge
Reqression Model
ISSUe Case Status key, AFQT, and Age
Type of Discharge key, AFOT, and Age
� p c .05 � * p < .Ol
Regression analyses were performed to examine
the incremental validity of the additional applicant data.
AFQT was collapsed into high (I-IIIA) and low (IIIB or
below) categories, Age was collapsed into three
categories: (a) 17 year olds, (b) 18-20 year olds, and
(c) 21 year olds or older. In Table 1 it is seen that
there is no evidence of incremental validity in predicting
issue case status by including AFQT category or age
at entry. However, for type of discharge, the validity
coefficient increases from .15 to 22 with the addition of
these variables.
169-R Item
Table 1
Validity Coefficients for Empirical Scoring Keys
and Regression Models
Prescreening
Adiudication
a**
.25**
.12*
Issue Case
Status
.21**
.27**
.15*
.27**
Type of
Discharqe
-.02
-.02
.15*
.22**
Figure 1 displays the 169-R items that are
included within the scoring keys for each of the criteria.
Four of the items, i.e. times marijuana use, times
intoxicated, visits for nervous, emotional, mental
counseling and suspended/expelled from School
appear in all three scoring keys. Three other items are
in two of the criteria while the remaining nine are only
found in one of the keys.
Prescreening Issue Case Type of
. . .
l&&cxl Status
Times marijuana use J J J
Frequency of marijuana use J J
Used hard drugs J
Possessed, transported, grown, produced, etc., drugs J J
Transpotied, sold, etc., alcohol J
Times intoxicated J J J
Frequency of alcohol usage J
Visits for nervous, emotional, mental counseling J / J
Pregnant or caused pregnancy J
Written bad checks J
Made delinquent payments J
Experienced financial problems J
Left job under less than favorable conditions J J
Suspended/expelled from school J J J
Unsafe vehicle/licensing violations /
Ran awav or considered runnina from home J
Figure 1. Form 169-R items included in empirical scoring keys
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