Technical Report - International Military Testing Association

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Job P.na1ysi.r for Tart Development F’urpozars
Prank H. Price, Chsi-n
US Amy Enlisted Evaluation Center
Today the grmt need in mfXitary teiting -- perticultrly job proiiciancy
evaluation -- is a sound understmding of the baeic job. Gnly
if the job to be evaluated lo known in all of itn detailed charactoristics,
can teata be developed to adequately measure euccess in the job.
fn other wrdn, we naad information about the job in vhich ue hope to
ta8t proficiency.
Job onalysia la a proteus of obtaining information about jobo. While
fob an~1yri.s can serve vorioua uoeful peroonnel purposes, the most Important
one for our consideration ia that of retting pereonnol rpecffications
required in a particular job. For tent construction purposes, a job
dercription is the end product of job analysis. It ir vital that the job
dercription be complete fn every detail. Success or proficiency in a job
cannot be properly wetueted unless tho nature of the job is fully knaan.
There era a ambar of different agproachnm to enalyxing jobo and
writing derr:iptiona of them. The papcro which Dr. Horah and Nr. McBride
will present this morning mre illurtratPve of different approaches to
obtaining job Infonaation. We believe you till find the papers intereotlng
end inform.stivo; and we hope thay vili stimulate job anslyrir effort In
your mm organIs~t1one.
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