Rand Cost-Performance Model for Setting Qualification Standards: Preliminary Comments

摘要

The Job Performance Measurement Project is a joint-service effort to develop good measures of job performance, to relate these measures to recruit aptitude test scores, and to use this relationship along with cost data to determine enlistment standards. To this end the Rand Corporation has developed a cost-performance model and applied it to the Army Infantryman specialty. Given the importance of the model outcomes to enlistment policy, it is essential to fully understand its assumptions and procedures. This Research Memorandum is intended to be the first in a series in which we attempt to evaluate and apply the model.