Technical b r Report - International Military Testing Association

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Phase II of the OJT costing contract is nearly completed. During
this phase the contractor utilized the survey techn’iquc developed in
Phase I to collect cost data for OJT to the 3-level for the following
specialities: Fire Protection, Pavements Maintenance, Fuels,
XIatcriel Facilities, and look.
The results of this phase will soon be ready for publication. Persons
interested in these results should be able to obtain information from
Nanpower and Personnel Systems Division of the XFHRL in the near
f u t u r e .
IV. Qlr:lLITY GF .THE TRAISIXG METHODS -
The OJT costing work described above shows that the Air Force
can and is obtaini-ng OJT cost estimates compatible for comparison with
TTS co. t estimates. One assumption required for a straightforward
comparison is that these two methods of training provide trained
personnel of equal quality in terms of their productivity on the job.
Cost estimates which included ‘quality’ in some manner would be
tenuous figures based on unsupported assumptions because measures
of quality useful for this purpose d:, not exist. Hence, cost estimation
and quality comparisons are treated separately.
The following discussion of methods of quality comparison is a
summary of some work completed at Manpower and Personnel Systems
Division, AFHQL. A thorr\ugti analysis of the ‘quality’ problem is in
preparation and should appear as an AFHRL technical report within a
year.
The problem of comparin g the quality of training metllods in the
military context deserves a thorough theoretical discussion of the
impediments faced by researchers. It ~7s thought expedient to publish
some interesting data in this article with only a short discussion of
problem traits to allow interested persons an earlier glimose of the
results.
previous research concerning this subject is limited. One exercise
was the aut_hor’s first simple comparison of mecan Speciality Knowledge ’
Test (SKT)~ scores, which essentially showed no differences between
the performance of OJT a.id TTS graduates on the SKT for the Communications
Center Operations specialty. This may have been indicative of future
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