An analysis of aviation test scores to characterize Student Naval Aviator disqualification
By: Erich J. Wahl
Publisher: Naval Postgraduate School; Available from National Technical Information Service
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Monterey, Calif; Springfield, Va
Language: eng
Number of pages: 71
Description: The U.S. Navy uses the Aviation Selection Test Battery (ASTh) to identify those Student Naval Aviator      (SNA) applicants most likely to succeed in flight training. Using classification and regression trees, this thesis      concludes that individual answers to an ASTh subtest, the Biographical Inventory, are not good predictors of      SNA primary flight grades. It also concludes that those SNA who score less than a 6 on the Pilot Biographical      Inventory have a significantly higher disqualification rate in primary flight training than those SNA who score a 6      or higher. Those SNA who repeat the taking of the ASTh are more likely to disqualify from primary flight      training than those SNA who pass it on the first attempt. Incidentally, significant differences exist in SNA      performance and disqualification rates in Aviation Preflight Indoctrination among different racial groups.      However, neither race nor gender is a significant factor in primary flight-training disqualification.      Recommendations are provided to reduce the number of SNA entering the flight- training pipeline, if necessary,      while significantly reducing the disqualification rate. Additionally, a method is given to identify those SNA most      at risk of disqualifying from primary flight training.
Notes: "March 1998."

Thesis advisor(s): Robert R. Read.

Thesis (M.S. in Operations Research) Naval Postgraduate School, March 1998.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 69-70)

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dk/dk cc:9116 8/18/98.