TY  - BOOK
AU  - Burkhauser,Susan
AU  - Hanser,Lawrence M.
AU  - Hardison,Chaitra M.
ED  - National Defense Research Institute (U.S.)
ED  - Rand Corporation.
TI  - Elements of success: how type of secondary education credential helps predict enlistee attrition 
T2  - RAND Corporation research report series
SN  - 0833085220
AV  - UB323 
U1  - 355.2/230973 23
PY  - 2014///
CY  - Santa Monica, CA
PB  - RAND
KW  - Education, Secondary
KW  - United States
KW  - Evaluation
KW  - Military discharge
KW  - Armed Forces
KW  - Personnel management
KW  - fast
KW  - HISTORY
KW  - Military
KW  - Other
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Law, Politics & Government
KW  - hilcc
KW  - Military & Naval Science
KW  - Military Administration
KW  - Recruiting and enlistment
KW  - Recruiting, enlistment, etc
KW  - Electronic book
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (page 47); Introduction -- Attrition analyses -- Study findings -- Conclusions and recommendations -- Appendix A: Descriptive statistics for key variables -- Appendix B: Effectiveness of the propensity weights -- Appendix C: Models used in doubly robust regression analysis -- Appendix D: Simple logistic regression model
N2  - The U.S military services have traditionally used a tiering system, including education credentials such as high school diplomas, in combination with Armed Forces Qualification Test (AFQT) scores to help gauge the likelihood of a recruit persevering through his or her first term of service. But what about less traditional credentials, such as diplomas earned through homeschooling and distance learning? The Office of the Under Secretary of Defense (Personnel and Readiness) asked RAND to examine whether its current education-credential tiering policy is still useful in predicting first-term attrition. The authors examined attrition rates at 12, 24, and 36 months of service for all enlistees from 2000 through 2011. Using statistical regression techniques, they compared attrition rates for those with distance learning or homeschool credentials to those of high school diploma holders, after controlling for other observable population differences. Overall, the analyses support current tiering policy classifying homeschool diplomas as Tier 1 if a recruit's AFQT score is 50 or higher (i.e., they are treated the same as high school diploma holders) or Tier 2 if a recruit's AFQT score is lower than 50. The results also support classifying distance learning credentials as Tier 2 regardless of AFQT score
UR  - http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7249/j.ctt5vjwzx
ER  -