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Synk, David J. – 1983
This study used meta-analysis research techniques to determine if there are differences in General Aptitude Test Battery (GATB) validities and test scores between males and females. The sample consisted of 26,111 subjects from 122 Specific Aptitude Test Battery (SATB) validation or revalidation studies analyzed since 1972. Four approaches were…
Descriptors: Aptitude Tests, Measurement Techniques, Meta Analysis, Scores
Mathis, Harold I. – Personnel Guidance J, 1969
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Aptitude Tests, Disadvantaged, Job Applicants
Download full textManpower Administration (DOL), Washington, DC. – 1970
Adult norms are shown as cutting scores for each of the aptitudes judged significant for a given occupation. Tables for converting adult scores to their ninth and tenth grade equivalents are included. The standard error of measurement is reported for each of the nine aptitudes of the General Aptitude Test Battery (GATB): intelligence, verbal…
Descriptors: Adults, Aptitude Tests, Cutting Scores, High Schools
Eberley, Robert E. – 1969
This study considered the predictive power of the General Aptitude Test Battery (GATB) for the junior college student, for whom the traditional measures of ability may not be suitable. It was designed to see if the GATB would predict GPA for first-semester freshmen in transfer and in vocational programs. Three hypotheses were tested on 203…
Descriptors: Aptitude Tests, College Freshmen, Predictive Validity, Technical Education
Vermont State Dept. of Education, Montpelier. Div. of Vocational-Technical Education. – 1974
One hundred forty students (mean age 17.5 years, mean full scale IQ 69.18, and mean reading grade level 3.61), in the Diversified Occupations Programs (Vermont) were investigated to determine whether the Nonreading Aptitude Test Battery (NATB) is a valid instrument for identifying occupational aptitudes of educable mentally retarded and low…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Aptitude Tests, Correlation, Exceptional Child Research
Peer reviewedHakstian, A. Ralph; Bennet, Richard W. – Educational and Psychological Measurement, 1978
Three multiple-abilities batteries--the Comprehensive Ability Battery, Differential Aptitude Tests, and General Aptitude Test Battery--are briefly discussed, and results of a study involving cross-correlations of the tests in these batteries are presented. (Author/JKS)
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Aptitude Tests, Correlation, Foreign Countries
DeNisi, Angelo S.; And Others – 1976
The Position Analysis Questionnaire (PAQ), a structured job analysis questionnaire that provides for the analysis for individual jobs in terms of 187 job elements, has been found in previous studies to be useful as the basis for predicting the mean test scores of incumbents on a sample of jobs in terms of the nine tests of the General Aptitude…
Descriptors: Aptitude Tests, Job Analysis, Occupational Tests, Personnel Selection
Manpower Administration (DOL), Washington, DC. – 1974
Research which resulted in the development of the Specific Aptitude Test Battery for use in selecting inexperienced or untrained individuals for training as ward clerks is described. Occupational norms in terms of minimum qualifying scores for the aptitude measures which predict job performance were established. The General Aptitude Test Battery…
Descriptors: Aptitude Tests, Employment Qualifications, Hospital Personnel, Job Analysis
Phelps, Richard P. – 1999
It has been proposed that the federal government's General Aptitude Test Battery (GATB) might be used to provide private employers with the same kind of useful information the federal government and college counselors receive about job applicants. The U.S. Department of Labor asked the National Research Council (NRC) to review the issues related…
Descriptors: Aptitude Tests, Bias, Employers, Evaluation Problems
Bemis, Stephen E.; And Others – Vocational Guidance Quarterly, 1974
This article describes refinements in an occupational family structure based on the Dictionary of Occupational Titles and the General Aptitude Test Battery that enhance the structure's value in counseling. (Author)
Descriptors: Aptitude Tests, Career Choice, Career Education, Career Guidance
Peer reviewedBriscoe, Cecil D.; And Others – Educational and Psychological Measurement, 1981
This investigation was concerned with determining the degree of relationship between scores on ability measures included in the standardized General Aptitude Test Battery (GATB) and self-estimates by high school students of their level of ability in the same aptitude areas as those in the GATB. (Author/AL)
Descriptors: Aptitude Tests, Career Exploration, High School Students, High Schools
Bureau of Employment Security (DOL), Washington, DC. – 1965
THE POSSIBILITY OF PREDICTIVE ERROR WHEN APPLYING U.S. MAINLAND NORMS FOR THE GENERAL APTITUDE TEST BATTERY TO THE EMPLOYMENT COUNSELING AND SELECTION PROCESS IN PUERTO RICO, PROMPTED A STUDY TO ESTABLISH LOCAL NORMS FOR THE SPANISH LANGUAGE VERSION, BATERIA GENERAL DE PRUEBAS DE APTITUD. A STRATIFIED QUOTA SAMPLE OF 1,500 PERSONS WAS SELECTED…
Descriptors: Aptitude Tests, Employment Statistics, Labor Force, Local Norms
McCormick, Ernest J.; And Others – 1977
A study dealt with the use of the Position Analysis Questionnaire (PAQ) within a job component validity framework as the basis for estimating aptitude requirements of jobs represented by scores on commercially available tests as contrasted with scores on General Aptitude Test Battery (GATB) tests. Procedures generally consisted of the use of job…
Descriptors: Aptitude Tests, Occupational Tests, Performance Tests, Predictive Measurement
Kapes, Jerome T. – 1975
Two independent studies were conducted to investigate possible differences in General Aptitude Test Battery (GATB) aptitude M resulting from the use of different test equipment (wooden vs. plastic apparatus.) As part of a ten-year longitudinal study of Vocational Development being conducted in the Department of Vocational Education at The…
Descriptors: Aptitude Tests, Comparative Analysis, Elementary Secondary Education, Scores
Manpower Administration (DOL), Washington, DC. U.S. Training and Employment Service. – 1954
The United States Training and Employment Service General Aptitude Test Battery (GATB), first published in 1947, has been included in a continuing program of research to validate the tests against success in many different occupations. The GATB consists of 12 tests which measure nine aptitudes: General Learning Ability; Verbal Aptitude; Numerical…
Descriptors: Aptitude Tests, Career Guidance, Evaluation Criteria, Job Applicants
