ASVAB Validation Technical Report: Builder (BU) Rating

The Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery (ASVAB) is used to classify recruits into Navy jobs, or ratings, using composites of test scores. Periodically these classification composites are re-evaluated to determine if they are still useful in predicting academic success for each rating. This study describes the revalidation efforts for classification into the Builder (BU) rating, including the data analyzed and the processes used to determine the most valid selection composites. Analyses showed that the largest portion of academic setbacks was due to those who had received waivers from the classification composites set in 2019, and that changing the composites in place would not be expected to change the academic setback rate while also maintaining or improving the graduation rate and also maintaining or expanded the pool of qualified accessions.