Air Force Officer Qualifying Test Form O: Development and Standardization.

Air Force Officer Qualifying Test AFOQT Form O replaced AFOQT Form N in September 1981 at Officer Training School testing sites and in March 1982 at Air Force Reserve Officer Training Corps testing sites. The new form contains 380 items organized into 16 subtests and yields a single raw score which is converted to a percentile equivalent for each of five composites Pilot, Navigator-Technical, Academic Aptitude, Verbal, and Quantitative. Although Form O serves the same purpose as its predecessors, it differs as to content, format, administration, and scoring. Form O item statistics, reliabilities, and intercorrelations were computed and found to be similar to corresponding Form N statistics. Standardization of Form O was done through equipercentile equating of common items to the Form N normative group, and raw-score-to-percentile-score Form O composite conversion tables were developed. It was concluded that Form O is acceptable as a selection instrument for Air Force Officers.