Technical b r Report - International Military Testing Association

student that will convince you that he can perform in your area of
expertise? ” The replies were translated into criterion statements
of desired behavior and hence into performance tests.
In the so calied “soft skills” areas --the leadership and attitude areas
addressed by the present author in 19;2 (9)--subject area specialists
working to the point of exhaustion with test psychologists progressed
from a condition of no validating tests, through multiple choice know-
ledge regurgitation tests, to case study type situational judgment tests
of application of principles and knowledge. In addition, they have
developed leadership peer rating scales on the premise that leadership
qualities depend, at least in some degree, upon the perceptions of
those who are to be led. In addition, they have developed a judgme’;ltal
rating chart for race relations instructors to use in judging fitness
of students to graduate as group facilitators. Significantly, here,
according ‘to Rogers (lo), one of the appropriate behaviors is keeping
quiet, remaining still, and allowing contentious group members to re-
late to the group.
Experiences at the three schools seem to point to the desirability of
stating performance objectives in advance and testing them by some
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