Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery (ASVAB) Topics

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How Aptitude Tests Work - Personnel Laboratory (WADD/ARDC) Selection and Classification Branch, Lackland AFB, TX July 1960 How_Aptitude_Tests_Work.pdf
AFHRL-TR-75-78. Airman Classification Batteries From 1948 to 1975 - A Review and Evaluation.  Joe Weeks, Cecil Mullins and Bart Vitola.  56 pages AFHRL-TR-75-78.pdf
An Email to a CSMgt in the Air Force Explaining the ASVAB Renorming which became effective for all Air Force classification decisions on 1 July 2004 AF-Email/ASVAB-1980-1997.htm
1991 Progress Report of the Development of the Self-Description Inventory (SDI) and its relationship to ASVAB scores. Reports/Christal-Big5-ASVAB-1991Rpt.pdf
Werner Wothke, R . Darrell Bock (Scientific Software, Inc ), Linda T . Curran (Air Force Human Resources Laboratory), Benjamin A . Fairbank (Operational Technologies Corporation), James W. Augustin, Alexander H . Gillet,Carlos Guerrero, Jr .(Universal Energy Systems, Inc): AFHRL-TR-90-67: A Factor Analytic Consideration of the Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery (ASVAB) and the Reference Test. DRAFT (4.2 Mb) AFHRL-TR-90-67DRAFT.pdf (4.2Mb)
Dickinson & Teachout: AFHRL-TR-90-85: Structure of the Air Force's Job Performance Measurement System and Predictability of the Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery (ASVAB)
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AFHRL-TP-90-85-xx.pdf
Welsch, Androlewicz & Curran:  AFHRL-TR-90-62:  Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery (ASVAB):  Analyses of Differential Item Functioning on Forms 15, 16, and 17.
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AFHRL-TP-90-62-xx.pdf
Ree & Earles: AFHRL-TR-90-46:  Relationships of General Ability, Specific Ability, and Job Category for Predicting Training Performance.
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AFHRL-TR-90-46.pdf
AFHRL-TR-90-46-xx.pdf
Ree & Earles:  AFHRL-TR-90-38:  Estimating the General Cognitive Component of the Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery (ASVAB):  Three faces of "g".
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AFHRL-TR-90-38.pdf
AFHRL-TR-90-38-xx.pdf
Welsh, Kucinkas, & Curran:  AFHRL-TR-90-22:  Armed Services Vocational {Aptitude} Battery (ASVAB):  Integrative Review of Validity Studies.
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AFHRL-TR-90-22-xx.pdf

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AFHRL/AFHRL-TR-90-22.pdf

Palmer, Haywood, Fairbank, & Earles:  AFHRL-TP-90-8:  Comparison of the Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery to the General Aptitude Test Battery. 
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AFHRL-TP-90-8-xx.pdf
Curran & Palmer:  AFHRL-TP-89-74:  Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery (ASVAB):  Item, Overlength and Operational Length Development of Forms 18 and 19. 
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AFHRL-TP-89-74-xx.pdf
Linn, Hastings, Hu, & Ryan: AFHRL-TR-87-45: Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery: Differential Item Functioning on the High School Form,  April 1988 [46 pages when loaded] AFHRL-TR-87-45-xx.pdf
Ree, Welsh, Wegner, & Earles, AFHRL-TP-85-21: Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery: Equating and Implementation of Forms 11, 12, and 13 in the 1980 Youth Population Metric, Nov 1985 [116 pages when loaded} AFHRL-TP-85-21-xx.pdf
Ward, Treat, & Albert:  AFHRL-TP-84-42:  General Applications of Hierarchical Grouping Using the HIER-GRP Computer Program.
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AFHRL-TP-84-42-00.pdf
AFHRL-TP-84-42-01.pdf
AFHRL-TP-84-42-19.pdf
 

AFHRL-TP-84-42-xx.pdf

Gialluca, Crichton, & Vale: AFHRL-TR-84-35: Methods for Equating Mental Tests, Nov 1984 [164 pages] AFHRL-TR-84-35-xx.pdf (summary)

AFHRL-TR-84-35.pdf (7 Mb)

Ree, Mathews, Mullins, & Massey, AFHRL-TR-81-49, Calibration of Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery Forms 8, 9, and 10. AFHRL-TR-81-49-xx.pdf

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