Technical b r Report - International Military Testing Association

The experimental design plan called for the,total pool of test items to
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be administered to a t:rained Infantry platoon that could be expected to
know and be able to perform at a reasonable level of proficiency. The
individual test items that correlated best with total test results were
then to constitute the final proficiency test. Further, this tryout was
to determine the feasibility of the scheduling and times allotted for
each of the test items.
As indicated earlier, no independent criteria were considered suitable
as validation criteria, since no other criteria were considered to be as
valid as the tests themselves. The elements of the test content were
reviewed by numerous infantry experts and judged to be valid samples of
the infantryman’s job. Therefore, agreement or disagreement with indices
such as supervisors’ ratings or written test scores was not considered
appropriate1 To determine whether the results did agree with commonly
accepted judgcments, peer ratings were employed which asked for ratings
of prcferende of individuals to do into combat with.
Test Evaluation
At this point in time we have only had an opportunity to take a cursory
look at the results achieved during the tryout of the Infantry tests.
Following completion of the Armor test tryout more complete analyses will
bd conducted of all the data.
The Infantry tests were administered to one Infantry platoon consisting
of 35 people. Nine were Squad and Fire Team Leaders (designated as HOS llB.40)
and 26 were squad members (llB.20). Formal test administration took one week.
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