Technical Report - International Military Testing Association

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CL%TiS D. l!CYRIDZ
US Army Artillery and Hissile School
Tha US Army i* one of tha large&t producers of achievmant type tQRtR
within tha United States today. During fiscal year 1964 over 1,000 different
nchlsvemmt-type teats W~J produced by the US Amy. Them schievamrrctype
tests mu referred to as KEi Evnluotion Teat8 within ths US Amy.
The US Army fa organized under a decanttslfrcd concept for tha production
of the reqc?rsd touting r=rtcrial becauee it r;ould rtquFre a very lerge
and expensive teat construction rtcff end edmfnintrotivo crtatlirhment if
all the teat materiel was produced at a ceotrclieed point.
The US Amy Enlisted Zvrluation Center, Fort Benjamin liorriaon, Indiana,
6CtO QO ths coordinating agency foi the ?lOS avaluatton testing program
between the varicue rchoolr with the US Amy tie fumioh the r&w test
mtarial and the Office of Perumnel Operfltiona, Department of the Army.
When 8 dacantr~lfred orgtifaation of thie type in used in the productfon
of test mter’ol, aavctsl problem ere created for US A:=y terting
peraonnsl. One of them pioblm mea&!, MO3 Evclulttfon Teat outlimB, i8
the topi.c for our discueolon.
A teat plcn or by US Amy tsminology an MOS Evaluatfon Tcet outline
for a opacific KOS Evaluation lert ia originally conrtructed by test .spacialietr
at the US Army Enliatcd Evaluation Center- Fort Ben jm,fn Harrison,
Indiana. The KCS Evelu*tion Test outline ir forwardad to the pertinent
US Amy Schools for their review a.nd revisions. The US Army SChOO16 normally
rely on porronnsl within the School dapartmanto fcr the teat outline
review and revlofonr . After the test outlinas have been reviemd and rcvised
by the US Amy Schoolo, they are returned to the US Army Enlisted
Evaluation Center where a final revision ie performed, and the teat outiine
ia then used by the US Amy Schoolr US a guide when constructing test Items.
When this rycsten it~ ured in reviewing and revising l4CS Evaluation Teat
outlined, it should be noted that ths review and ravleion have been c~ccmplished
only by teat opecialist sod instructor personnel within the Army
Schoolr. For the most part, no anllrted peraonnsl acturlly ?-*orking in the
job hova been involved.
Some of the foulto found in urfng a procedure of thio type for
constructing KOS Evaluatf-n Tert outlines nrt a8 follovs:
a. Publications uaed by test specialists as a baaia in deciding
the aubjcct-matter � :eao to be included fn a teat outline arc in many
carea not current. For exempla, one of the major publications uatd by
toet opeciallst within the US Aczty ‘*en constructing a teat outline ie A job
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