Development of Experimental Army Enlisted Personnel Selection and Classification Tests and Job Performance Criteria

摘要

U.S. Army leadership recognizes first and foremost the importance of its people - Soldiers - to the effectiveness of transformation to the Future Force. Preparing for this future will affect all aspects of the Soldier management system - selection, job classification, training, and leader development. This research effort is concerned with Soldier accession and job classification and is titled New Predictors for Selecting and Assigning Future Force Soldiers (Select2l). The Select2l goal is to ensure the Army acquires Soldiers with the knowledge, skills, and attributes (KSAs) needed for performing the types of tasks envisioned in a transformed Army. The objectives of the project are to (a) identify Future Force job demands and the preenlistment KSAs required to meet them, (b) develop measures of job performance and critical KSAs, and (c) validate the experimental predictor (KSA) measures in a concurrent criterion- related validation. This report documents efforts to develop Select21 predictor and criterion measures. The predictor set includes measures of cognitive ability, temperament, psychomotor skills, values, expectations, and experience. Performance criteria include rating scales to be completed by supervisors and peers, technical knowledge tests, a situational judgment test, and indicators of personal environment fit (e.g., job satisfaction).