AFQT

AcronymDefinition
AFQTArmed Forces Qualification Test
AFQTAlliance for Quality Teaching (Colorado)
AFQTAir Force Officers Qualifying Test
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A higher birthweight, a higher maternal education, and a higher AFQT score all imply a higher cognitive ability endowment.
Welfare reform and children's early cognitive development
I will focus on the composite AFQT score, which is used as a screening device by the military and has been used in many previous economic studies.
Black-white differences in intergenerational economic mobility in the United States
Among Hispanic and white men, the pay gap narrows to 8 percent after adjusting for years of schooling and disappears altogether with the addition of AFQT scores.
The Declining Importance of Race and Gender in the Labor Market
We have suggested two ways to improve immigrant quality: a point system that gives immigrants credit for easily observable characteristics and a more detailed testing system that uses tests such as the AFQT.
Immigration in the twenty-first century: a personnel selection approach
PP and TP families had lower incomes, more children, and lower AFQT scores.
The bidirectional effects of early poverty on children's reading and home environment scores: associations and ethnic differences
Army recruiters were instructed to find young men who had a high school diploma and an AFQT score of 50 or higher, which means that recruits had to be from the top half of the mental test distribution.
Should we bring back the draft? Is the all-volunteer force a "mercenary army"?
tank gunner who had a Category IV AFQT score with one who was Category
Women in combat: is the current policy obsolete?
To assure comparability of AFQT scores, the study design included matching respondents by age.
Association of early childbearing and low cognitive ability
AFQT scores reflect achieved academic ability as well as innate cognitive ability and are not the same as IQ test scores, in this section, we present estimates from three empirical studies that model the effects of cognitive ability, proxied by AFQT scores, on earnings in young adults.
Economic gains resulting from the reduction in children's exposure to lead in the United States. (Children's Health Articles)
The number of enlistees scoring in the top half of the Armed Forces Qualification Test (AFQT) has dropped by a third since the mid-1990s, although in FY 2000 Army recruiters achieved a 22-percent increase in "high quality recruits, defined as high-school graduates who scored high" on the AFQT.
What Ails the All-Volunteer Force: An Institutional Perspective
The Navy brass cited the skills deficit, documented by the AFQT, as
Black, and Navy Too: How Vietnam Era African-American Sailors Asserted Manhood through Black Power Militancy
Ironically, the authors delete from their composite AFQT score, a timed test of numerical operations because it is not highly correlated with the other tests.
The Bell Curve: Intelligence and Class Structure in American Life
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