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performance criteria. Classification is most efficient when
different skills are required for the jobs being filled. If twohand
tracking is equally important for all Infantry positions,
selecting TOW gunners with this test may not be appropriate and
will result in a depletion of necessary tracking skills of recruits
from the 11 MOS. follow-up work can examine this by collecting
performance data from several Infantry MOS and examining the
results of using a battery of tests to determine assignment.
These results assume that training performance reflects onthe-job
performance,. Some initial results in the field indicate
that this is true, In addition, there is some limitation in the
effectiveness of Two-hand Tracking as a predictor in this context,
since the sample was already preselected based on a CO cutoff of
85. More gains would most likely be found if psychomotor tests are
given before recruits are assigned to even a family of MOS.
However, the present results suggest that with only a slight
modification of the present system, the addition of a psychomotor
test can lead to improved selection without greatly depleting the
quality of the recruits remaining for assignment in the remaining
MOS.
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