Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery.
ASVAB
- What it measures
- Multi-aptitude battery - general ability (AFQT) plus verbal, mathematics, science/technical, spatial and occupational composites
- Length and format
- approx 135 (CAT-ASVAB, 10 subtests); paper form longer. multiple-choice ability (computer-adaptive and paper forms) (performance/ability test)
- Language versions
- primarily English; Spanish Student-program materials vary (unverified for the operational test)
- Normative data
- No normative data held in our reference library for this instrument. That is a statement about our library, not about the published literature.
- Licence
- public-domain / open
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- Reference
- US Department of Defense. ASVAB Technical Bulletin; official.asvab.com.
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