Technical Report - International Military Testing Association

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ANNEX 3
CRITERIA FCR PERFORMANCE CHECK TEST ITEHS
1. Items should requfre as little judgment as to quality as possible.
Ideally, each item would be evaluated as being “possessed” or “not possessed”
by examinee.
2. Item6 should emphasize licrftical’V motor skills that discriminate
between various levels of performance.
3. Readily observable differences should exist in the motor tasks,
(or portion thereof, described by the item.
4. The performance can be evaluated objectively in that it is
directly measurable (i.e. can be evaluated as to percent accuracy of
performance , count can be made of specific number of times something was
done, is.performed at the defined level, etc., rather than having to
evaluate it in a highly subjective manner where the standard6 will vary
greatly from one observer to another.)
5. Items selected for objective evaluation should be a representative
trampling or cross section of the overall performance in order that the
evaluation will not be one-sided or unfair to 6ome.
6. Items of performance selected should be those that can be
Ipresented in a uniform manner by different observers at different locations.
7. Items should be those which when being used will have a high
degree of agreement among observers.
8. Items requiring a special performance of standard task may be used
when required, but otherwise should be avoided to simplify completion of
the PCT.
9. Item6 which can be evaluated better and more efficiently by paper
and pencil testing should not be included in this list. No item should
have a lower correlation withtotal PCT score than with written test score.
10. Items selected should be considered in terms of use for minimum
qualification, proficiency, and pranotion score determination. This implies
that items may need to be restricted to activities commonly per-
IEormed by most or all.
11. PCT items must conform with usual measurement principles and
item and test criteria.
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