Assessing the Tailored Adaptive Personality Assessment System.

摘要

This report describes research that examined whether the Tailored Adaptive Personality Assessment System (TAPAS) may be useful for identifying Army Soldiers who will perform well in an Army Special Operations Forces (ARSOF) assessment and selection course. TAPAS data were collected from 1,216 Soldier-candidates attending the ARSOF course and were used to predict selection for ARSOF training. Results indicated that several scales were significantly related to Soldier selection and that the TAPAS was useful for differentiating candidates who were successfully selected for ARSOF training from Soldiers who withdrew from the assessment and selection course, either voluntarily or involuntarily. Therefore, the TAPAS appears to be useful for predicting selection following the ARSOF course. Future research directions that can help to expand these findings are discussed.