Effects of basic training on learning by airmen of different intellectual ability.

128 young Israeli women in compulsory military training were administered a predictive test battery at the start and performance ratings at the close of basic training. A composite measure of intellectual ability, attitudes toward women's occupational role, and discomfort with the routines of basic training were substantially correlated with officers' and peers' performance ratings, in descending order of magnitude.

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Formation Pattern State Defense Reserve Components In Five Countries Of Asean

Journal of Business and Behavioural Entrepreneurship ◽

10.21009/jobbe.001.1.02 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 1 (1) ◽

pp. 18-26

Author(s):

Bayu Setiawan

Keyword(s):

Group Discussion ◽

Intellectual Ability ◽

National Defense ◽

Basic Training ◽

Formation Pattern ◽

Key Competences ◽

Reserve Component ◽

Asean Countries ◽

State Defense ◽

Military Basic Training

This research is a qualitative research, which aims to describe the ideal pattern for Indonesia in building the reserve component base on the result of benchmarking and review of the formation pattern of the Asean countries, namely Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, the Phlilipines, and Thailand. The place of research were Directorate of Reserve Component and the Directorate of State Defense of Defense Potential, Directorate General of Defense Potentioal, Ministry of Defence of the Republic of Indonesia, Commission I of the House of Representatives, and the Defence Attache of the five Asean countries. The data was collected by using Focus Group Discussion method, questionnaries, interviews, direct observation, and document verification. Data analysis was perfomed using a model of the Analytical Hierarchy Process (AHP) Thomas L. Saaty, such as, to determine actor, pattern, and actor with the highest priority and become the most important criteria in the formation of national defense reserve component in five Asian countries. Result of research on the highest priority and the most important criteria: (1) for Factor: Deterrent Power; (2) for Pattern: Budgeting; and (3) for Actor: the Thailand Kingdom. In this study we analyzed the implementation of eight key competences of Michael Zwell, ie, beliefs and values, skills, experience, personality traits, motivation, control emotional issues, intellectual ability, and the culture of the organization in six patterns for the formation of national defense reserve component in the Kingdom of Thailand, namely recruitment, training (development), use (utilities), closure, reward and punishment, and budgeting. The result of the analysis shows that the model and the development time in military basic training phase has the highest priority in improving the competence of members of the reserve component. In order to increase the deterrent power of the nation and country, Indonesia needs the competence of members of the reserve components that are national resources defense. Therefore, to improve the competence of defense reserve component member of the country, Indonesia needs to implement eight key competences of Michael Zwell into the military basic training curriculum, which is the part of a national programme to defend the country, and put the Ministry of Defence as a leading sector. Keywords: factor, pattern, actor, training, detterent, competence.

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Influence of General and Crystallized Intelligence on Vocabulary Test Performance

European Journal of Psychological Assessment ◽

10.1027//1015-5759.18.1.78 ◽

2002 ◽

Vol 18 (1) ◽

pp. 78-84 ◽

Cited By ~ 10

Author(s):

Eva Ullstadius ◽

Jan-Eric Gustafsson ◽

Berit Carlstedt

Keyword(s):

Hierarchical Model ◽

Test Performance ◽

Verbal Ability ◽

Testing Procedure ◽

Intellectual Ability ◽

Analysis Of Covariance ◽

Categorical Variables ◽

Vocabulary Test ◽

Crystallized Intelligence ◽

General Ability

Summary: Vocabulary tests, part of most test batteries of general intellectual ability, measure both verbal and general ability. Newly developed techniques for confirmatory factor analysis of dichotomous variables make it possible to analyze the influence of different abilities on the performance on each item. In the testing procedure of the Computerized Swedish Enlistment test battery, eight different subtests of a new vocabulary test were given randomly to subsamples of a representative sample of 18-year-old male conscripts (N = 9001). Three central dimensions of a hierarchical model of intellectual abilities, general (G), verbal (Gc'), and spatial ability (Gv') were estimated under different assumptions of the nature of the data. In addition to an ordinary analysis of covariance matrices, assuming linearity of relations, the item variables were treated as categorical variables in the Mplus program. All eight subtests fit the hierarchical model, and the items were found to load about equally on G and Gc'. The results also indicate that if nonlinearity is not taken into account, the G loadings for the easy items are underestimated. These items, moreover, appear to be better measures of G than the difficult ones. The practical utility of the outcome for item selection and the theoretical implications for the question of the origin of verbal ability are discussed.

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