Improving the Selection, Classification, and Utilization of Army Enlisted Personnel: Technical Appendix to the Annual Report

Eaton, Newell K.; Goer, Marvin H

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“…The data to be reported for our second example were collected as part of Project A (Eaton, Goer, Harris, & Zook, 1984), the Army's large-scale, multi-year research program intended to develop an improved selection and classification system for initial assignment of persons to U S . Army military occupational specialties (MOS) or jobs.…”

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Test Validation for Scientific Understanding: Two Demonstrations of an Approach to Studying Predictor‐criterion Linkages

Pulakos

Borman²,

Hough³

1988

Personnel Psychology

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This paper argues that a construct-oriented approach to test validation is likely to enhance scientific understanding of our predictor measures, performance criteria, and links between them. In particular, examining relationships between relatively homogeneous predictors and criteria tapping specific performance areas operationalizes earlier conceptual statements made by Guion and Dunnette about test validation for scientific understanding. Two demonstrations are offered to show how measures of predictor constructs have predictably different patterns of correlations with different criteria. In a study of Navy recruiters (N = 267), individual personality scales had significantly different relationships with three different rating criteria; in a second study, with Army enlisted soldiers (N = 8,642), cognitive ability and personality construct measures also showed predictable patterns of correlations, with rating criteria measuring three different performance areas. The paper discusses scientific and practical implications of this construct-oriented approach to test validation. For many years, researchers have advocated the use of construct validation strategies in personnel selection research (e.g., Cronbach, 1949;Guion, 1976). In particular, it has been argued that emphasis should be placed on identifying homogeneous criterion factors, specifying individual differences important for predicting performance in each of these criterion areas, and then investigating the linkages between measures of these multiple constructs (Dunnette, 1963). The rationale behind this approach is that

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Section: Example 2: Examination Of Predictor-criterion Linkages For Amentioning

confidence: 99%

Test Validation for Scientific Understanding: Two Demonstrations of an Approach to Studying Predictor‐criterion Linkages

Pulakos

Borman²,

Hough³

1988

Personnel Psychology

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“…For example, during 2013 the annual average power outage was less than 3 h in the EU [30] while it was higher than 3 h in the U. [31]. LaCommare and Eto [25] also reported that the estimated costs could be as high as 135 billion or as low as 22 billion dollars based on the sensitivity assumptions.…”

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Macroeconomic Assessment of Voltage Sags

Küfeoğlu

Lehtonen

2016

Sustainability

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Abstract:The electric power sector has changed dramatically since the 1980s. Electricity customers are now demanding uninterrupted and high quality service from both utilities and authorities. By becoming more and more dependent on the voltage sensitive electronic equipment, the industry sector is the one which is affected the most by voltage disturbances. Voltage sags are one of the most crucial problems for these customers. The utilities, on the other hand, conduct cost-benefit analyses before going through new investment projects. At this point, understanding the costs of voltage sags become imperative for planning purposes. The characteristics of electric power consumption and hence the susceptibility against voltage sags differ considerably among different industry subsectors. Therefore, a model that will address the estimation of worth of electric power reliability for a large number of customer groups is necessary. This paper introduces a macroeconomic model to calculate Customer Voltage Sag Costs (CVSCs) for the industry sector customers. The proposed model makes use of analytical data such as value added, annual energy consumption, working hours, and average outage durations and provides a straightforward, credible, and easy to follow methodology for the estimation of CVSCs.

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“…The tests represent some of the hypothesized dimensions of primary importance for performance in the Army and are designed to discriminate reliably among the ability levels of those recruits now entering the Army. The reader is referred to Eaton et al (1985) …”

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“…The Army research project which is developing the predictors reviewed in this report is called Project A (Eaton, Goer, Harris & Zook, 1985). Project A is designed to evaluate and update the selection and classification system of the Army.…”

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“…Project A is designed to evaluate and update the selection and classification system of the Army. The project entails the development of both criterion and predictor measures, with the intent that the developed predictor measures and the currently used predictor measures (the latter being the Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery or ASVAB) be validated against the criterion measures (Eaton et al, 1985). The intent of the present report is to describe a portion of the research effort of Project A and to compare the described portion of Project A to similar efforts of the Air Force and Navy.…”

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A Comparison of the Army's Project A Cognitive and Psychomotor Tests to Analogous Air Force and Navy Tests

Czarnolewski¹

1987

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Improving the Selection, Classification, and Utilization of Army Enlisted Personnel: Technical Appendix to the Annual Report

Cited by 8 publications

References 33 publications

Test Validation for Scientific Understanding: Two Demonstrations of an Approach to Studying Predictor‐criterion Linkages

Test Validation for Scientific Understanding: Two Demonstrations of an Approach to Studying Predictor‐criterion Linkages

Macroeconomic Assessment of Voltage Sags

A Comparison of the Army's Project A Cognitive and Psychomotor Tests to Analogous Air Force and Navy Tests

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