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  title info:
    title: Comparison of readability of specialty knowledge tests to reading abilities of Air Force enlisted personnel
  name:
    name part: Baugh, Janet Kay.
    role:
      role term: creator
  name:
    name part: Barker, Donald G.
    role:
      role term: degree committee member.
  name:
    name part: Garcia, Gonzalo
    role:
      role term: degree supervisor.
  name:
    name part: Householder, Daniel L.
    role:
      role term: degree committee member.
  name:
    name part: Seaman, Don F.
    role:
      role term: degree supervisor.
  name:
    name part: Texas A & M University
    role:
      role term: degree granting institution.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Academic theses
  genre: Examinations.
  genre: Terminology.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: xx
    date issued: 1993
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xii, 131 leaves : illustrations ; 28 cm
  abstract: The purpose of this study was to determine how well the Specialty Knowledge Tests (SKTs) selected for this study matched the airman population assigned to their respective Air Force career fields in regard to reading grade level (RGL). The specific research question that was examined in this study was to determine how closely the mean RGLs of each of the 20 E-5 SKTs matched the mean entrance RGLs of the airman population in each of the 20 corresponding Air Force specialties at the mean RGL or within 1 standard deviation (SD) below the mean RGL of the airman population (reduced RGL). Previous readability researchers have concentrated on using RGL formulas to estimate the RGLs of prose. In contrast, only a few studies were found that estimated the readability of multiple-choice tests. For this study, the FORCAST Readability Formula (Caylor, Sticht, Fox, & Ford, 1973) was used to collect the data and estimate the RGLs of each of the SKTs. In addition, the instructions were adapted to be applicable for use with multiple-choice tests. The basic design of this study was a comparison of the mean RGLs of the 20 E-5 SKTs selected for this study and the mean entrance RGLs of the airman population in the corresponding Air Force specialties. Then the mean RGL scores from each of the SKTs were compared to the mean entrance RGL scores of airmen in each of their respective Air Force specialties using data from Faneuff's (1990) "Reading Grade Level on the Air Force Reading Abilities Test (AFRAT) Scale." The results of this study indicated that all of the estimated mean RGLs of the 20 E-5 SKTs were above the mean RGLs and reduced RGLs of the airman population from the corresponding Air Force specialties. Therefore, the RGLs did not match. It was concluded that the readability levels of the 20 E-5 SKTS selected for this study were written above the reading abilities of the airman population from each corresponding Air Force specialty.
  note: "Major subject: Adult and Extension Education."
  note: Vita.
  note: Ph. D. Texas A & M University 1993
  note: Includes bibliographical references.
  subject:
    geographic code: n-us---
  subject:
    name:
      name part: United States.
      name part: Air Force
    topic: Airmen
    topic: Examinations
  subject:
    name:
      name part: United States.
      name part: Air Force.
  subject:
    topic: Examinations
    topic: Interpretation
  subject:
    topic: Vocational education
    genre: Terminology
  subject:
    topic: Workplace literacy
  subject:
    topic: Major adult and extension education
  subject:
    topic: Armed Forces
    topic: Airmen
  subject:
    topic: Examinations
    topic: Interpretation
  subject:
    topic: Vocational education
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  identifier: https://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/DISSERTATIONS-1476044
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      url: https://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/DISSERTATIONS-1476044
  record info:
    record content source: TXA
    record creation date: 950426
    record change date: 20220103134909.0
    record identifier: in00001232986
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng