Elements of Success: How Type of Secondary Education Credential Helps Predict Enlistee Attrition

doi:10.7249/RR374

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DOI	10.7249/RR374
报告编号	RR-374-OSD
	Elements of Success: How Type of Secondary Education Credential Helps Predict Enlistee Attrition
	Susan Burkhauser; Lawrence M. Hanser; Chaitra M. Hardison
	2014
出版年	2014
页数	63
语种	英语
国家	美国
出版者	RAND Corporation
领域	资源环境
英文摘要	The U.S. military services have traditionally used a tiering system, including education credentials such as high school diplomas, in combination with Armed Forces Qualification Test (AFQT) scores to help gauge the likelihood of a recruit persevering through his or her first term of service. But what about less traditional credentials, such as diplomas earned through homeschooling and distance learning? The Office of the Under Secretary of Defense (Personnel and Readiness) asked RAND to examine whether its current education-credential tiering policy is still useful in predicting first-term attrition. The authors examined attrition rates at 12, 24, and 36 months of service for all enlistees from 2000 through 2011. Using statistical regression techniques, they compared attrition rates for those with distance learning or homeschool credentials to those of high school diploma holders, after controlling for other observable population differences. Overall, the analyses support current tiering policy classifying homeschool diplomas as Tier 1 if a recruit's AFQT score is 50 or higher (i.e., they are treated the same as high school diploma holders) or Tier 2 if a recruit's AFQT score is lower than 50. The results also support classifying distance learning credentials as Tier 2 regardless of AFQT score.
英文关键词	Military Personnel Retention Academic Achievement Secondary Education Enlisted Personnel Students
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来源平台	Rand Corporation
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文献类型	科技报告
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.173/C666/handle/2XK7JSWQ/3804
专题	资源环境科学
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Susan Burkhauser,Lawrence M. Hanser,Chaitra M. Hardison. Elements of Success: How Type of Secondary Education Credential Helps Predict Enlistee Attrition:RAND Corporation,2014.