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It compares g estimates derived from the Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery (ASVAB) alone against ASVAB plus nine nonverbal, process-based experimental ECAT tests. 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ExpandedTest Base\n\nGERALD E.LARSON  \nJOHN H.WOLFENavy Personnel Research and Development Center,San Diego,CA  \nWhen vocational aptitude batteries are expanded by adding new tests,the most commonway to measure validity gains is to regress various criteria onto the subtest scores from theold and new batteries and contrast the results.A rarely tried approach that may be of equalvalue,however,is to examine “accidental”validity gains for a recalculated general intel-ligence (or g)score based on the new battery,because many psychologists have arguedthat the majority of test validity comes from g rather than specific abilities.In this article,we examine validity differences for ag score calculated on the Armed Services VocationalAptitude Battery(ASVAB)alone versus the ASVAB plus nine diverse experimental testsselected for their potential importance and uniqueness from the ASVAB.Although novalidity gain for expanded g was observed for final school grade criteria,a 6%validitygain was obtained for hands-on performance measures.A gain of this size is of practicalimportance in the armed forces.  \nWhen vocational aptitude batteries are expanded by adding new tests,the mostcommon way to measure validity gains is to regrcss various criteria onto thesubtest scores from the old and new batteries and contrast the results.Validitygains are expected to result from specific relationships between the just-addedconstructs and one or more criterion scores.For example,one may find that themaximum gains from adding a spatial test accrue in mechanical jobs where taskanalyses reveal many spatial-type job demands.This,at least,is the idealizedscenario portrayed in the ability profile view,or,as Jensen(1984)refers to it,the\"specificity doctrine.\"The doctrine holds that mental abilities consist of a reper-toire of specific skills and that test batteries measure some selected sample of theskill repertoire.The broader the sampling,the more types of outcomes may besuccessfully predicted.  \nA rarely tried approach that may be of equal value,however,is to examine  \nLARSON AND WOLFE  \n\"accidental\"validity gains for a recalculated general intelligence(or g)scorebased on the new battery,because many psychologists(e.g.,Humphreys,1979;Hunter,1986;Jensen,1984;McNemar,1964;Ree &Earles,1991;Thorndike,1985)have argued that the majority of test validity comes from g rather thanspecific abilities.Hunter(1986),for example,noted that the massive databasesgathered by the U.S.Employment Service and the Armed Forces clearly suggestthat it is general cognitive ability rather than specific cognitive aptitudes thatpredicts job performance.Moreover,there are reasons for believing that some,but not all,test battery changes could provide a theoretically better (and perhapsmore valid)g estimate.First of all,if a battery is narrowly based to begin with,then diversification should reduce specificity in a factor representing the largestpool of common variance.For example,contrast the positive manifold among aset of verbal tests with the positive manifold among a collection of verbal andspatial tests.Only the latter approaches what we typically mean by general intel-ligence.Also,if a battery lacks a fluid intelligence test (as some scholastic apti-tude batteries do,for example)then adding a fluid test may improve themeasurement of g simply by virtue of the extremely close relationship betweenthe two constructs(Marshalek,Lohman,&Snow,1983;Undheim &Gustafsson,1987).  \nFortunately we are now in the position of being able to test these hypothesesabout accidental validity gains for g.The Armed Forces are concluding a multi-year effort to improve the validity of the Armed Services Vocational AptitudeBattery(ASVAB).The approach has been to broaden the range of skills mea-sured and thereby provide an expanded ability profile with which to matchpeople to jobs.The main analyses involved multiple regression,where the vari-ous subtest scores were allowed to enter 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