Technical Report - International Military Testing Association

When a request was made for the names of enlisted peroonnel who would
attend, the request specified that the individuals should be the “best”
qualified in the 142 MOS and have considerable field experience. The request
also indicated that 011 skill levels within the KG should attend.
The active military service represented by the enlisted men who participated
in the seminar rnnged from 10 to 29 years -- a combined total of 296.5 years,
of which 116.5 years are associated with MOS 142. The active military
service per individual averaged 14.8 years. The senior school instructor
who attended had a total of 22 years’ experience in a field cloaaly related
to the MOS. The test specialist attending had considerable experience fn
the field of test construction.
The individuals attending the seminar were thoroughly briefed on the
role they were to play during the seminar and the procedures to be followed.
Personnel were divided into two working groups with all skill levels represented
in each group. The test specialists acted as monitors for the
working groups.
Each member of the working groups was given a copy of the 142 XOS
Evaluation Test outline as proposed by the Enlisted Evaluation Center minus
the weights. The morning session consisted of a review of the test outline
subject-matter area descriptions with all members of the working groups
discc.seing revisions, changes, or additions to the area descriptions,
This allowed the view points of the enlisted personnel, the test specialist,
and the senior school department instructor to be presented on an informal
basis with the consensus determining what should or should not be included
in the test outline subject-matter nreas. The afternoon session was devoted
to the weighting of the test outlil,2 by the working groupe using the aamt)
general procedures aa already discussed. A critique of the day’s work
closed the MOS Evaluation Teat Outlina Seminar.
After the seminar, the test specialists from the US Army Artillery and
Missile School and the Enlisted Evaluation Center reviewed the results of
the suggested deletions, revisions, and changes indicated by the two working
groups during the Seminar and constructed a finalized test outline that
was based on the combined thoughts of the three major groups involved. The
finalized test outline was sent to the pertinent School departments at the
US Army Artfllery and Missile School for their review and comments and then
for-warded to the US Army Enlisted Evaluation Center for final review,
An MCS Evaluatfon Teat outline that has been processed through an HOS
Evaluation Test Outline Seminar results in a test outline that:
a. Contains subject-matter areas significant to the job for which
the examinee is being tested,
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