Technical b r Report - International Military Testing Association

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The System Achievement Test, because of its objective to test the
technicians' total system capabilities, is a relatil-ely lengthy test.
The SAT ranges from one J-hour Session to fez such sessions, dept>ding
on the particular PPP/TPS requirements. Obviously uitb a test this
long, we were concerned witi: the attitude CF -2.e personnel required to
take it. Surprisingly, after the initial gr-amblings, cbe technicians
appear to vie2 the SAT as an integral part of their training progran.
Some technicians :..-vc even provided rccornendaticns to improve various
aspects of the tests.
The DDS exercises require the use of the sa=e technical docoinentation
employed by the techn,cians when troubleshoczing similar casualties
onboard ship. h'e decided early in the develcpment of the program that
close monitoring of the change status of'thc publicaticcs would be
required to insure currency of the tests. Tt was also decided that
the local Navy team at each site should maintain its own technical
library to insure positive control of the change status of the publi-
cations used with the tests. This decision created ex-.rc: work for the
teams but reduced the cries of "this won't Lark" during t!le test sessions.
During the first year of testing, the raw results \;ere mailed from the
test site to the central site for scoring. This created a delay of 10
to 15 days from the completion of the test to the time the results
were returned. The pro+jran managers in the S*Jategic Systems Project
Cffi;a ji:act& that tiiis turnarOund time be reduced CO enabie commands
to schedule remedial training, if the test results indic-ited a signifi-
cant deficiency, prior to departure for patrol. An optical scanning
device and a teletype machine were used to solve this problem. The
Navy team processes the examiners' answer sheets thrcugh the optical
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