Author: National Research Council Publisher: National Academies Press ISBN: 030904538X Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 273
Book Description
Although ability testing has been an American preoccupation since the 1920s, comparatively little systematic attention has been paid to understanding and measuring the kinds of human performance that tests are commonly used to predictâ€"such as success at school or work. Now, a sustained, large-scale effort has been made to develop measures that are very close to actual performance on the job. The four military services have carried out an ambitious study, called the Joint-Service Job Performance Measurement/Enlistment Standards (JPM) Project, that brings new sophistication to the measurement of performance in work settings. Volume 1 analyzes the JPM experience in the context of human resource management policy in the military. Beginning with a historical overview of the criterion problem, it looks closely at substantive and methodological issues in criterion research suggested by the project: the development of performance measures; sampling, logistical, and standardization problems; evaluating the reliability and content representativeness of performance measures; and the relationship between predictor scores and performance measuresâ€"valuable information that can also be useful in the civilian workplace.
Author: Martin F. Wiskoff Publisher: Praeger ISBN: 0275929248 Category : Education Languages : en Pages : 0
Book Description
This volume documents military advances in personnel measurement technology and practices. The military is the unquestionable forerunner of this technology. Until now some of this knowledge has not been easily accessible to the scientific community at large. This book highlights advances in enlisted personnel screening and selection from World War I to the present. It foresees the future era of testing, through the use of Item Response Theory, computerized adaptive testing, and the development of new computerized tests. The contributors study the use of computer systems to address person-job match and vocational guidance. They also describe selection to various officer candidate programs and examine the criteria of enlisted performance during peacetime. Military Personnel Measurement covers the full scope of military personnel technology and includes discussions of current topics including: computerized vocational guidance systems; advances in vocational testing; personnel classification; evaluations of enlisted performance. Students and professionals in the areas of personnel management, business administration, military studies, or anyone interested in the use of new technology in the testing and evaluation of personnel, will find Military Personnel Measurement a valuable resource.
Author: National Research Council Publisher: National Academies Press ISBN: 0309045398 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 345
Book Description
Volume II covers a number of measurement and analytical issues in greater technical detail, including: range restriction adjustments, methods for evaluating multiple sources of error in measurement, comparing alternative measures of performance, and strategies for clustering military occupations.
Author: Martin F. Wiskoff Publisher: Praeger ISBN: Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 238
Book Description
This volume documents military advances in personnel measurement technology and practices. The military is the unquestionable forerunner of this technology. Until now some of this knowledge has not been easily accessible to the scientific community at large. This book highlights advances in enlisted personnel screening and selection from World War I to the present. It foresees the future era of testing, through the use of Item Response Theory, computerized adaptive testing, and the development of new computerized tests. The contributors study the use of computer systems to address person-job match and vocational guidance. They also describe selection to various officer candidate programs and examine the criteria of enlisted performance during peacetime. Military Personnel Measurement covers the full scope of military personnel technology and includes discussions of current topics including: computerized vocational guidance systems; advances in vocational testing; personnel classification; evaluations of enlisted performance. Students and professionals in the areas of personnel management, business administration, military studies, or anyone interested in the use of new technology in the testing and evaluation of personnel, will find Military Personnel Measurement a valuable resource.
Author: Institute of Medicine Publisher: National Academies Press ISBN: 030904586X Category : Technology & Engineering Languages : en Pages : 371
Book Description
This book surveys the entire field of body composition as it relates to performance. It includes a clear definition of terminology and a discussion of the various methods for measuring body composition. The authored papers represent a state-of-the-art review of this controversial field and address questions such as: What is a better measure of body compositionâ€"body fat or lean body mass? Does being overweight for one's height really affect performance? The book also addresses the issue of physical appearance as it relates to body fatness and performance. It includes an in-depth discussion of many of the topics of interest to those involved in sports medicine and exercise physiology.
Author: M. Suzanne Lipscomb Publisher: ISBN: Category : Examinations Languages : en Pages : 41
Book Description
In the early 1980's the Air Force initiated a long-term effort to develop a performance measurement technology for accurately measuring the performance of enlisted personnel. Requests from operational military and civilian program managers in the manpower, personnel, and training (MPT) communities for criteria to evaluate training and selection programs, and requests from the MPT research community for criteria to validate their R & D projects, energized research in the performance measurement domain. A Congressional mandate to test the feasibility of linking enlistment standards to job performance added impetus to this effort. This document contains a series of five papers which discuss current work in this area being done by the Air Force Human Resources Laboratory. Detailed descriptions of AFHRL's strategy for test content selection, work sample testing, data analysis, training evaluation, and technology transfer are presented and discussed. Keywords: ASVAB(Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery), Job performance, Performance measurement, Air force training, Technology transfer, Test content selection, Training evaluation, Aptitude tests. (sdw).
Author: Publisher: ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages : 131
Book Description
The purpose of this manual is to provide an understanding of how the Army applies personnel psychology and statistics to its personnel problems. This manual is addressed to two audiences. The first is composed of those officer and enlisted personnel whose assignments entail responsibility for using personnel measurement techniques and procedures or for instructing others in their use, either in schools or on the job. The second audience consists of officer and enlisted personnel interested in gaining a better understanding of technical aspects of personnel management. Technical content of the manual is treated in the light of practical military personnel problems. The solutions to these problems are difficult; therefore, considerable study and thought will be required of the reader. So far as possible, technical terms have been avoided, but where such terms are used, their meanings are explained.
Author: Committee on the Performance of Military Personnel Publisher: National Academies Press ISBN: 9780309076593 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 247
Book Description
Although ability testing has been an American preoccupation since the 1920s, comparatively little systematic attention has been paid to understanding and measuring the kinds of human performance that tests are commonly used to predict--such as success at school or work. Now, a sustained, large-scale effort has been made to develop measures that are very close to actual performance on the job. The four military services have carried out an ambitious study, called the Joint-Service Job Performance Measurement/Enlistment Standards (JPM) Project, that brings new sophistication to the measurement of performance in work settings. Volume 1 analyzes the JPM experience in the context of human resource management policy in the military. Beginning with a historical overview of the criterion problem, it looks closely at substantive and methodological issues in criterion research suggested by the project: the development of performance measures; sampling, logistical, and standardization problems; evaluating the reliability and content representativeness of performance measures; and the relationship between predictor scores and performance measures--valuable information that can also be useful in the civilian workplace.
Author: National Research Council
Author: Martin F. Wiskoff
Author: National Research Council
Author: Martin F. Wiskoff
Author: Institute of Medicine
Author: United States. Department of the Army
Author: United States. Department of the Army
Author: M. Suzanne Lipscomb
Author: 
Author: Committee on the Performance of Military Personnel