The Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery (ASVAB) is one of the most widely researched aptitude tests available in this country. It is used extensively in the military, but also has been made available to students in secondary and post-secondary education (Whiston, 2013, p. 176). It is a group-administered, multiple-aptitude battery that has been used since 1976. The ASVAB is required upon being admitted into any of the Armed Services, and was created as an instrument specifically for those who choose to join the Armed Forces. Additionally, the ASVAB is frequently used in schools where career counseling is available. The ASVAB has application outside of the military, and is often given to students in combination with the Find Your Interests (FYI) inventory which is a measure of career and vocational interests that has been designed by the Department of Defense. The ASVAB Career Exploration Program uses the FYI and ASVAB in conjunction to help students learn about different careers and their interests. The ASVAB Program has been designed to be helpful to most all students who are planning on immediate employment after high school in civilian and military occupations, or planning to attend college, a university, or vocational institution. The usefulness of the ASVAB is in its ability to predict an individual’s performance in military and civilian occupations. Thus, the ASVAB is not only administered as a screening tool for the military, even though the instrument has historically originated from military assessments.
The earliest military aptitude tests were introduced around the time of World War I, and were known as Army Alpha and Army Beta, which provided the commanding officers with measurements of the abilities o...
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The United States Army, in its current state, is a profession of arms. In order to be considered a profession, the organization must have an ethical code rooted in values, strong trust with its clients, and be comprised of experts within the trade. These experts are constantly developing the trade for the present and the future and hold the same shared view of their trade culture.
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This paper will not bore with the definition of a profession. The United States Army is about more than words, it is about action. The action of over 238 years of tradition and service. The Army is a profession. A profession requires its members to adhere to prolonged training and learn specialized skills. A member of a profession must wholly commit himself and his skills to a calling which is entrusted by the public. A profession provides its members with intrinsic value which motivates beyond financial gain. The Army is a higher calling which demands all of these qualities and more.
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It is 1917. You are a young American man who has enlisted in the armed forces, but before you are shipped off to France, you have to take what is known as an Army Alpha Test. Your scores will be compared to more than a million others and the results will determine whether you are placed in an officer training program or simply thrust onto the battlefield. High stakes were placed on this test 93 years ago; high stakes are placed on tests modeled after them today. The standardized achievement tests commonly used in schools today evolved from the Army Alphas developed by the American Psychological Association. This is precisely the problem. Standardized tests are old and outdated, and the harm they cause to America’s education system by far out-weighs the benefits. These tests were intended to monitor and offer ways to improve how public schools function, but instead they have impaired the natural learning ability of students and imposed upon the judgment of experienced educators. Although a means to evaluate the progress of public schools in necessary, it is also necessary to develop more modern and effective ways of doing so. Standardized testing mandated by the federal and state governments has a negative effect on the education of America’s youth.
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There is an every growing need for college graduates that need government benefits. There are a surplus of able body men and woman looking for a career or a chance to better their life’s using the benefits provide by the Mandatory Military Services Act as a catalyst to improve the standard of living for each citizen. By having experience that will transience to the job market, with the job market being flooded with highly train workers with military background the overall productivity will greatly improve. (Ruschmann
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On the same note, every day there is a civilian signing a piece of paper, joining the force, preparing to receive world class training and doctrinal lessons on how to be a good leader, as well as, a good subordinate. While on active duty, service members are subjected to continuous training opportunities and experiences. The Army promotion system is a rigorous platform system that requires certain benchmarks in their military education and time in service. These benchmarks ensure that the best available candidate moves forward and takes the sought after position, demanding the highest level of mental fortitude and discipline. These traits, along with others, are some of the ways the Army prepares vets for ensuing education. The Army has established training requirements that ensure soldiers are active in their decision making and critical thinking skills and are taking classes’ equivalent to that of a civilian. The longer a soldier is enlisted, the more training and formal education they will receive to assist in their departure from the military. The Structured Self Development (SSD) created by the Army has allowed many soldiers who were uneasy with or procrastinating continuing their education a chance to ease into it or see what it would be like in a distant learning situation. This training is necessary for promotion to certain echelons and is intended to emulate college level classes, but of the military genre. Currently, many schools accept military training as transferable credits through the Army American Council on Education Registry Transcript System (AARTS). The AARTS program allows a suggested transfer credit registry for military training, occupational skills, leadership courses, and other military specific training that directly correlates with civilian education (Wilson 57). With
The most difficult barrier to conducting initial individual training is the varying backgrounds of all of the soldiers. In ...
Student veterans enter the classroom and the workforce with many concerns and needs but also many skills gained throughout their time in service. Skills in leadership, team work, organization, structured work habits and advance special training specific fields is a broad overview of skills gained. With their skill intact, student veterans must also handle the issues of mental health, disability financial aid, community engagement, and career are among the many needs to be sought after,