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Title

United States Service Academy admissions : selecting for success at the Air Force Academy and as an officer / Chaitra M. Hardison, Susan Burkhauser, Lawrence M. Hanser ; prepared for the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense.

Author

Hardison, Chaitra M.

Publication

• Santa Monica, Calif. : RAND Corporation, [2016]
• ©2016

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Additional Authors

• Burkhauser, Susan
• Hanser, Lawrence M.
• Rand Corporation, issuing body.
• National Defense Research Institute (U.S.), sponsoring body.

Description

xx, 74 pages; 23 cm

Summary

"This report examines admission standards at the United States Air Force Academy (USAFA) and officer outcomes to evaluate whether the USAFA admissions formula should be adjusted. USAFA admissions are partly determined based on scores calculated as a weighted combination of three elements: academic composite, leadership composite, and selection panel score. The authors explored relationships between various admissions factors (SAT/ACT composite scores, high school rank divided by class size, selection composite score, leadership composite score, academic composite score, and selection panel score) and USAFA and officer outcomes (grade point average; failure to graduate for academic reasons; failure to graduate because of a desire for a career change; military performance average; overall performance average; and promotion to O-4, O-5, and O-6). The data included records on the nearly 35,000 cadets who attended USAFA from 1980 to 2011 from three Air Force data sources: USAFA registrar admissions records, USAFA cadet records, and Air Force personnel records. Recommendations include removing the selection panel score from the selection composite formula, collecting additional information on applicants, and improving data retention and maintenance"--Back cover.

Series Statement

[Research report] ; RR-744-OSD

Uniform Title

Research report (Rand Corporation) ; RR-744-OSD.

Alternative Title

Selecting for success at the Air Force Academy and as an officer

Subject

• United States Air Force Academy > Admission
• United States. Air Force > Officers > Training of

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 71-74).

Contents

Overview of USAFA's admissions process and available data -- Components of the admissions process -- Statistical approach and data sources -- Regression analysis results.

Call Number

JFE 17-2394

ISBN

• 0833091824
• 9780833091826

LCCN

2016462730

OCLC

956738885

Author

Hardison, Chaitra M., author.

Title

United States Service Academy admissions : selecting for success at the Air Force Academy and as an officer / Chaitra M. Hardison, Susan Burkhauser, Lawrence M. Hanser ; prepared for the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense.

Publisher

Santa Monica, Calif. : RAND Corporation, [2016]

Copyright Date

©2016

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

[Research report] ; RR-744-OSD

Research report (Rand Corporation) ; RR-744-OSD.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 71-74).

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Burkhauser, Susan, author.

Hanser, Lawrence M., author.

Rand Corporation, issuing body.

National Defense Research Institute (U.S.), sponsoring body.

Research Call Number

JFE 17-2394