I__. - International Military Testing Association

TWEEDDALE, J. W. (Chair), Chief of Naval Education and Training,
Pensacola, FL.
Annually, approximately 40,000 prospective college students request
information on the NROTC scholarship program. About 12,000
individuals apply and become finalists for NROTC scholarships.
Four-year scholarships are ultimately awarded to approximately 1,500
of the applicants. The scholarship pays for tuition, textbooks,
instructional fees, and summer training periods, as well as provides
the selectee with $100 per month (for a maximum of 40 months).
Selectees may become a member of any of the 66 NROTC units that
service over 120 colleges and universities located nationwide.
The presentations in this symposium describe the procedures used to
select NROTC scholarship recipients. CDR Bob Hawkins of the Na+al
Education and Training Program Management Support Activity will
present an overview of the NROTC selection process. Jack Edwards of
Navy Personnel Research and Development Center will present a paper
that was coauthored with Regina Burch (Colorado State University) and
Norman Abrahams (Personnel Decisions Research Institutes, Inc.). He
will review the steps used to revise the NROTC selection composite.
Third, Wally Borman from the University of South Florida will discuss
a recently developed, behaviorally anchored selection interview and a
newly constructed biodata instrument. Finally, I will highlight the
current and future research objectives for the NROTC scholarship
selection system.
TWEEDDALE, J. W.,
Pensacola, FL
Chief of Naval Education and Training,
Improved procedures for the selection of future officers is
complicated by the longitudinal nature of the research. For
example, if the criterion is whether an individual will remain
following completion of obligated duty, it may take 8 to 10
years for the criterion data to become mature. Also, the
divergent criteria (college grade point average, grade point
average in naval science courses, and military performance
while in NROTC and later in the Navy) used to assess the
accuracy of the NROTC scholarship selection system may present
problems.
The need to monitor the validity of the current predictors and
develop new predictor and criterion measures are but two of the
research needs currently confronting NROTC researchers. In
addition to capturing readily quantifiable information efforts
have been put forth to capture various other characteristics of
"the whole person." Now, researchers, CNET staff, and
Professors of Naval Science are examining ways to operationalize,
measure, and validate those characteristics. The
whole-person model will continue to guide NROTC scholarship
selection research in this time of change for the Navy.
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