Review of Related LiteratureHistorical and General BackgroundEnterFor nearly half a century, the U.S. Army has pioneered the use of tests aptitude to select individuals with sufficient skills and abilities to undergo military training, adapt to military life and become successful military personnel ("History", nd). The Army's selection of recruits began during World War I, with the Army Alpha and Army Beta tests, which were replaced by the Army General Classification Test during World War II. When Congress passed the Selective Service Act in 1948, the Department of Defense (DoD) developed the Armed Forces Qualification Test (AFQT) in response to a congressional mandate to develop a uniform screening test to be used by all services ("Armed Services," 2014). In the 1960s, the DoD decided to develop a standardized military selection and classification test and administer it in American high schools. In 1968, the DoD began administering the Armed Services Vocational Abilities Battery free of charge to interested 10th, 11th, and 12th graders and postsecondary school students to help provide information about eligibility for enlistment for military service ( Armstrong, Chalupsky, McLaughlin, & Dalldorf, 1988), but it was not used for military recruiting until a few years later. Beginning in 1976, three years after the project ended, the ASVAB was adopted as a battery. unique selection and classification for enlistment testing, and is administered to all potential recruits, with the results used to determine enlistment eligibility, placement, and enlistment assignment. bounties (“Armed Services,” 2014; Center, 2009). Table 1 lists and describes the ten different domains scored by the ASVAB. As noted...... middle of paper...... the military and the taxpayer suffer when the course prerequisites (the Army Electronic Composite Score) are not met. accurately reflect a level of knowledge and/or skills necessary for success in the course and subsequently in the professional field as a whole. Summary of Literature Reviewed The overall bottom line is that for recruits to be successful in training and throughout their careers, they must meet the prerequisites that have been proven to predict the success needed in this field. However, these prerequisites must be valid, which requires that they be aligned with the training objectives. If the current minimum Electronic Composite Line score is an inadequate measure of the baseline recruits must have before being assigned an electrically intensive MOS, the Army must conduct a needs analysis to determine what should be this score..