I__. - International Military Testing Association

As already shown, rater reliability is poor but may be a
function of the analysis approach. Additional analysis will focus
on the ability level instead of the cluster level. We felt that
the correlation results were highly interesting in that the
degree of relationship between the MOSS pairs is highly
supportive of the relationships subjectively thought to exist.
Moreover, we expect to see even stronger relationships, both
positive and negative, at the ability subset level. For example,
a correlation analysis between each MO8 pair using the abilities
groupings of communications, auditory, psychomotor, and gross
motor should reveal this increase. We believe that this approach
will also be applicable to a comparison analysis between current _.
MOSS and new MOSS.
Our future efforts will focus on several areas. First, we
plan to determine rater agreement for each ability across each
MOS. Using these results in conjunction with analysis of mean
differences between abilities and MOSS we intend to focus on a
reduced set of abilities. This subset will be a function of rater
reliability and discriminate power between MOSS. In other words,
those abilities that have the best rater agreement and tend to
discriminate between Moss will be used. In addition to the
development of a refined subset of abilities, we plan to analyzed
MOSS at the major duties level. Two new MOSs- 31D and 31F- will
be analyzed using the JAAS procedure and then compared with the
total MOS and major duty profiles of the four MOSS already
completed. These two MOSS are the operators for the new area
communications system and are the MOSS into which a significant
number of Signal soldiers will be reclassified. It is hoped that
the profile comparisons will provide objective information for
this reclassification effort.
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