The ECAT battery

Military Psychology

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 5-37

  Alderton, David L ^a   Wolfe, John H ^b   Larson, Gerald E ^b  

^a CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

^b Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center Pacific   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EID: 0002592279     PISSN: 08995605     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1207/s15327876mp0901_1     Document Type: Article

References (44)

1. Alderton, D. L. (1989a). Development and evaluation of Integrating Details: A complex spatial problem solving test (Rep. No. TR 89-6). San Diego, CA: Navy Personnel Research and Development Center. (NTIS No. AD-A205860)
2. Alderton, D. L. (1989b). Integrating Details: Proposal for Joint Services validation. Unpublished manuscript, Technical Advisory Service Panel.
3. Alderton, D. L., & Larson, G. E. (1992, May). Navy and Joint-Service validity research: Interim conclusions. Paper presented to North Atlantic Treaty Organization Research Group 15 on Computer-Based Selection and Classification in the Military, Monterey, CA.
4. Alderton, D. L., & Larson, G. E. (1994). Dimensions of ability: Diminishing returns? In M. G. Rumsey, C. B. Walker, & J. H. Harris (Eds.), Personnel selection and classification (pp. 137-144). Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc.
5. Automated Sciences Group & CACI, Inc. (1988). CAT-ASVAB program concept of operation and cost/benefit analysis (Contract No. DE-AC05-860R21642, Subcontract No. A253-S16). San Diego, CA: Navy Personnel Research and Development Center.
6. Baddeley, A. D. (1992). Working memory. Science, 255, 556-559.
7. Bosshardt, M. J. (1989). Utility of five psychomotor abilities for first-term Navy enlisted performance (Rep. No. NPRDC TR 89-10). San Diego, CA: Navy Personnel Research and Development Center. (NTIS No. AD-A209639)
8. Busciglio, H. H. (1990). The incremental validity of spatial and perceptual-psychomotor tests relative to the Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery (Tech. Rep. No. ARI 883). Alexandria, VA: U.S. Army Research Institute for the Behavioral and Social Sciences. (NTIS No. AD-A220903)
9. Busciglio, H. H. (1992). Assessing the coachability of Project A spatial tests: Empirical results. In Proceedings of the 34th Annual Conference of the Military Testing Association (Vol. 2, pp. 570-575). San Diego, CA: Navy Personnel Research and Development Center. (NTIS No. AD-A268816)
10. Carpenter, P. A., Just, M. A., & Shell, P. (1990). What one intelligence test measures: A theoretical account of the processing in the Raven Progressive Matrices Test. Psychological Review, 97, 404-431.
11. Carroll, J. B. (1993). Human cognitive abilities. New York: Cambridge University Press.
12. Cattell, R. B. (1971). Abilities: Their growth, structure, and action. New York: Houghton Mifflin.
13. Eitelberg, M. J., Laurence, J. H., Waters, B. K., & Perelman, L. S. (1984). Screening for service: Aptitude and education criteria for military entry. Washington, DC: Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense, Manpower, Installations, and Logistics. (NTIS No. AD-A142167)
14. Grafton, F., Czarnolewski, M. Y., & Smith, E. P. (1989). Relationship between Project A psychomotor and spatial tests and TOW2 gunnery performance: A preliminary investigation (Rep. No. ARI-WP-RS-89-1). Alexandria, VA: U.S. Army Research Institute for the Behavioral and Social Sciences.
15. Hunt, E., Pellegrino, J. W., Abate, R., Alderton, D. L., Farr, S. A., Frick, R. W., & McDonald, T. P. (1987). Computer-controlled testing of visual-spatial ability (Rep. No. NPRDC TR 87-31). San Diego, CA: Navy Personnel Research and Development Center. (NTIS No. AD-A186560)
16. Kass, R. A., Mitchell, K. J., Grafton, F. C., & Wing, H. (1983). Factorial validity of the Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery (ASVAB), Forms 8, 9, and 10: 1981 Army applicant sample. Educational and Psychological Measurement, 43, 1077-1087.
17. Kyllonen, P., & Christal, R. E. (1988). Cognitive modeling of learning abilities: A status report of LAMP (Tech. Rep. No. AFHRL 87-66). Brooks Air Force Base, TX: Armstrong Human Resources Laboratory. (NTIS No. AD-A190671)
18. Kyllonen, P., & Christal, R. E. (1990). Reasoning ability is (little more than) working memory capacity?! Intelligence, 14, 389-433.
19. Larson, G. E. (1989). Mental Counters: Proposal for Joint Services validation. Unpublished manuscript, Technical Advisory Selection Panel.
20. Larson, G. E., & Alderton, D. L. (1992). Reliabilities and practice effects for the ECAT battery. In Proceedings of the 34th Annual Conference of the Military Testing Association (Vol. 1, pp. 33-38). San Diego, CA: Navy Personnel Research and Development Center. (NTIS No. AD-A268815)
21. Larson, G. E., & Alderton, D. L. (1997/this issue). Test-retest results for the ECAT battery. Military Psychology, 9, 39-47.
22. Larson, G. E., & Wolfe, J. H. (1995). Validity results for g from an expanded test base. Intelligence, 20, 15-25.
23. Laurence, J. H., & Ramsberger, P. F. (1991). Low-aptitude men in the military: Who profits, who pays? New York: Praeger.
24. Lawley, D. (1943). A note on Karl Pearson's selection formulae. Royal Society of Edinburgh Proceedings, Section A, 62, 28-30.
25. Lohman, D. F. (1979). Spatial ability: A review and reanalysis of the correlational literature (Tech. Rep. No. 8). Stanford, CA: Stanford University.
26. Lohman, D. F., & Kyllonen, P. C. (1983). Individual differences in solution strategy on spatial tasks. In R. F. Dillon & R. R. Schmeck (Eds.), Individual differences in cognition (Vol. 1, pp. 105-135). New York: Academic.
27. Moreno, K. E., & Segall, D. O. (1992). CAT-ASVAB precision. In Proceedings of the 34th Annual Conference of the Military Testing Association (Vol. 1, pp. 22-26). San Diego, CA: Navy Personnel Research and Development Center. (NTIS No. AD-A268815)
28. Peterson, N. G., Hough, L. M., Dunnette, M. D., Rosse, R. L., Houston, J. S., & Toquam, J. L. (1990). Project A: Specification of the predictor domain and development of new selection/classification tests. Personnel Psychology, 43, 247-276.
29. Ramsberger, P., & Means, B. (1987). Military performance of low-aptitude recruits: A reexamination of data from Project 100,000 and the ASVAB misnorming period (Final Rep. No. 87-31). Alexandria, VA: Human Resources Research Organization.
30. Ree, M. J., Mullins, C. J., Mathews, J. J., & Massey, R. H. (1982). Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery: Item and factor analyses of Forms 8, 9, and 10 (Rep. No. AFHRL-TR-81-55). Brooks Air Force Base, TX: Air Force Human Resources Laboratory, Manpower and Personnel Division. (NTIS No. AD-A113465)
31. Sager, C. E., Peterson, N. G., Oppler, S. H., Rosse, R. L., & Walker, C. B. (1997/this issue). An examination of five indexes of test battery performance: Analysis of the ECAT battery. Military Psychology, 9, 97-120.
32. Schmid, J., & Leiman, J. M. (1957). The development of hierarchical factor solutions. Psychometrika, 22, 53-61.
33. Schmidt, F., Dunn, W., & Hunter, J. (1995). Potential utility increases from adding new tests to the Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery (ASVAB) (Rep. No. TN-95-5). San Diego, CA: Navy Personnel Research and Development Center. (NTIS No. AD-A279580, Original contractor's report 1987)
34. Segall, D. (1993). Score equaling verification analysis of the CAT-ASVAB. Unpublished manuscript.
35. Sellman, S. (1988, December 14). Memorandum for Manpower Accession Policy Steering Committee: Appointment of technical representative to a Joint-Service computerized test selection committee. Washington, DC: Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense.
36. Shepard, R. N., & Cooper, L. A. (1982). Mental images and their transformations. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
37. Technical Advisory Selection Panel. (1989a). Criteria for selection of computerized tests. Unpublished manuscript (Enclosure 3.2a to the minutes of the meeting of 24-27 January of the Technical Advisory Selection Panel).
38. Technical Advisory Selection Panel. (1989b). Report of Technical Advisory Selection Panel. Unpublished manuscript (Memorandum to CAT-ASVAB Working Group).
39. Tirre, B. (1989). LAMP tests for LAMP/ASVAB validation study. Unpublished manuscript, Technical Advisory Selection Panel.
40. U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. (1978, August 25). Uniform guidelines on employee selection procedures. 43 Fed. Reg. 166, 38290-38309.
41. Walker, C. B. (1989). ARI's nominations for new tests for the Technical Advisory Selection Panel (TASP). Unpublished manuscript.
42. Wise, L., Welsh, J., Grafton, F., Foley, P., Earles, J., Sawin, L., & Divgi, D. R. (1992). Sensitivity and fairness of the Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery (ASVAB) technical composites (Tech. Rep. No. DMDC 92-002). Monterey, CA: Defense Manpower Data Center.
43. Wolfe, J. H. (1997a/this issue). Incremental validity of ECAT battery factors. Military Psychology, 9, 49-76.
44. Wolfe, J. H. (1997b/this issue). Stepwise selection of ECATs for maximum mean validity. Military Psychology, 9, 85-95.