Technical b r Report - International Military Testing Association

that these are problems of technique and not the inheredt nature of perfor-
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mance tests. The challenge is to pursue the refinemen! of techniques
rather than back off to more manageable though less fruitful approaches
to testing. Performance testing has the power of accurate job proficiency
assessment and the challenge is to tap it.
As to the increased costs in time and manpower, we feel that a change
in attitude and commitment to the testing process is needed. If we now
have the beginning of mechanisms for accurately determining the status
of proficiency of our personnel, the resources should be made alpailable
to employ it. Without the type of data that is avrilable from well designed
performance testing, training efforts will necessarily operate at less than
optimum efficiency. I
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