Cast-off Youth

Policy and Training Methods from the Military Experience

Inbunden, Engelska, 1987

AvThomas G. Sticht,William B. Armstrong,Daniel Hickey,William B. Armstrong,John S. Caylor

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This work focuses on the highly controversial Project 100,000 which was initiated in the midst of the Vietnam War and the War on Poverty during the Johnson administration. With the project as a model, the authors easily show exactly how the military examined, selected, classified, trained, and utilized the one third of our nation generally considered untrainable and unemployable. In addition to providing detailed statistics on the performance of lower aptitude youth in the military for the last half-century, this work analyzes experiments conducted by the armed forces to develop effective and efficient ways to train these youths.

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Utgivningsdatum1987-09-30
Mått161 x 240 x 17 mm
Vikt520 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor230
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN9780275926212

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THOMAS G.STICHT is Adjunct Professor of Industrial Psychology at the U.S. Postgraduate School in Monterey and President of Applied Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences Inc.WILLIAM B. ARMSTRONG is a Data Analyst with the Comprehensive Adult Student Assessment System (CASAS), implementing the educational testing component of California's Greater Avenues for Independence (GAIN) program for welfare recipients.DANIEL T. HICKEY is an Instructional Technologist with Applied Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences, Inc.

List of Tables List of Figures Preface Cast-off Youth Part I: Employing the Unemployable Mental Standards in the Military The Low-Aptitude Soldier in World War II and the Korean Conflict Vietnam and Project 100,000 The All-Volunteer Force and the ASVAB Miscalibration Cast-off Youth in Perspective Part II: The Functional-Context Training Approach Military Strategies for Using Low-Aptitude Personnel Functional-Context Technical Training Functional-Context Literacy Training Part III: Developing an Experimental Functional-Context Training Curriculum Survey of Electronics Training Programs and the Electronics Industry A Functional-Context Training Electronics Technician's Course Cast-off Youth: Summary and Recommendations Appendix: Mental Quality and Military Service: An Interview with Robert S. McNamara References Author Index Subject Index About the Authors