Technical Report - International Military Testing Association

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Concluding Cameente
CLAUDE F’. BRIDGES
US Army Enlietad Eveluetion Canter
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After tha etimuletfng preperetory presentations of Cenarel Z8i8,
Ceptain Reyee, end Dr. Edgarton, the question � rieee ‘What have we
� ccanpliehad in this eympoeiu~?” Cur axpectetion wee not thet WI would
imeadietaly make eny breakthroughs into the outer specs of tasting. We
did hope to go beyond mora axchenga of procedures end obtain acme etimu-
1Ation end nascent ideee having potential for meking inroede into tha
currently 1nadequetaly maaeureble percentega of job proficiency. I
believe wa heve � ccanpliehad this purpoea. Three d1ecueeione hevc provided
us with idaee, possible new � pproechce, or naw epplicetione of
aetabliehad techniques thet are worthy of further axploretion.
Dr. Zaccerie mey strike some treditionel1et8 as a bit of 8 maverick
ia some of his ueegae of terminology, but the points mada in tha paper
by him end Dr. Kerp marit serious coneidaretion. True psychological
8nelyece of jobs, epccificnlly for � aeeurament and treining purpoeeel
and the cfftctiva detenninetion of functions1 job requirements and
� tenderde should prova to be one of our most fruitful � terting ?ointe.
As Cronbech (1960) etetee, “The most important requiranent fot valid
� eec-Jemant le...8 cleer undcretending of the psychologies1 rcc,uiremente
of the criterion teek.” In this connection, severe1 recent publications
by Dr. Robert N. Cegnc end Dr. Robert B. Hfller art pregnant with poeeibllitiee.
The pepare by Hr. Urry end Hr. Shirkay indiceta not only that con-
� idcrabla improvament of even good taste ten still result from further
polishing, but � leo point out some new applications of etetFeticel
� nelyeie end control techniques to npprecieble incraeea in test velidity.
..- * AS expected, Lieutenant Longo’e peper provides eavarel significant
contributions. The Nevel Air Technical Treining � teff, under Dr. Meyo,
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for many yeere has bean conducting axteneivc reecerch on tha prediction
of job proficiency end on � ctuel versus predicted � chievament. This
pepar werrente some edditionel ccuxaente end I would like to meka sane
further suggestions on the use of an indax beeed upon the relationship
of (1) ectuel � chievament, es mteeured by a proficiency test, and (2)
axpectcd � chitvament, as predicted by en � ppropri&te � ptituda test.
Lt Longo pointed out, that such 8 “diecrepency score” or, as I prefar
to cell it, “effcctfveneee indax,” reflects the composite affect of
several verieblee including both error verienca end � ll verience not
in cOrnmOn between the two varieblee. Included in these influencing
vrrieblce era attitudes, work hebite, locelly unique job eituetion
varieblee, interection effects, end motivetion-in other words, the
affectiveneee with which the men � ppliee his eptltudee, ekil.8, and
knowladgce to achievement in 8 specific � ituetion.
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