Cast-off Youth: Policy and Training Methods from the Military Experience

by Thomas G. Sticht, William B. Armstrong, Daniel Hickey

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780275926212
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	09/30/1987
Pages:	230
Product dimensions:	6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 0.56(d)

About the Author

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.

Table of Contents

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