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Siegel, Arthur I. – 1983
This is the third report on the use of a technical classification assessment center (TCAC) for evaluating general detail (GENDET) personnel in the Navy. The first two reports described the development of the TCAC and the validation of the TCAC against supervisors' ratings of job performance for a small exploratory sample. This report presents the…
Descriptors: Classification, Evaluation Methods, Military Personnel, Performance Factors
Green, Bert F.; And Others – 1982
The United States Armed Services are planning to introduce computerized adaptive testing (CAT) into the Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery (ASVAB), which is a major part of the present personnel assessment procedures. Adaptive testing will improve efficiency greatly by assessing each candidate's answers as the test progresses and posing…
Descriptors: Aptitude Tests, Armed Forces, Computer Assisted Testing, Evaluation Methods
Download full textWise, Lauress – 1993
As high-stakes use of tests increases, it becomes vital that test developers and test users communicate clearly about the accuracy and limitations of the scores generated by a test after it is assembled and used. A procedure is described for portraying the accuracy of test scores. It can be used in setting accuracy targets during form construction…
Descriptors: Classification, High Stakes Tests, Item Response Theory, Military Personnel
Fletcher, John; Ree, Malcolm J. – 1976
A total of 2,052 US high school boys and girls, selected from 10 geographical regions, were tested on consecutive half days using the Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery (ASVAB) Form 2 and ASVAB Form 5. Effects of fatigue, training, environment and proctorial variation were minimized by experimental design. An extensive program of optical…
Descriptors: Aptitude Tests, Armed Forces, High School Students, Measurement Instruments
Mitchell, Karen Janice – 1983
A model of verbal performance was developed which defined cognitive processes thought to underlie performance on the Word Knowledge and Paragraph Comprehension subtests of the Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery (ASVAB). The items from two forms of these ASVAB verbal subtests were rated on five conceptualized cognitive storage processes:…
Descriptors: Adults, Aptitude Tests, Cognitive Processes, Difficulty Level
Peterson, Norman G., Ed. – 1987
As part of the United States Army's Project A, research has been conducted to develop and field test a battery of experimental tests to complement the Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery in predicting soldiers' job performance. Project A is the United States Army's large-scale manpower effort to improve selection, classification, and…
Descriptors: Biographical Inventories, Classification, Cognitive Measurement, Computer Assisted Testing
Wigdor, Alexandra K., Ed.; Green, Bert F., Jr., Ed. – 1991
This is the sixth and final report of the National Research Council's Committee on the Performance of Military Personnel on the Joint-Service Job Performance Measurement/Enlistment Standards (JPM) Project, a project designed to develop measures of performance for entry-level military jobs so that enlistment standards could be linked to performance…
Descriptors: Aptitude Tests, Armed Forces, Cost Effectiveness, Educational Assessment
1975
The 62 papers presented at the 1975 conference of the Military Testing Association cover almost all areas of military and occupational assessment and evaluation, and are arranged in 19 "common subject-matter groupings": Symposium (on Aptitude Testing), Training Extension Courses, Computerized Testing, Task Validation and Qualification…
Descriptors: Aptitude Tests, Career Counseling, Certification, Computer Assisted Instruction
