Military Personnel Measurement: Testing, Assignment, Evaluation

This volume documents military advances in personnel measurement technology and practices. The military is the unquestionable forerunner of this technology. Until now some of this knowledge has not been easily accessible to the scientific community at large. This book highlights advances in enlisted personnel screening and selection from World War I to the present. It foresees the future era of testing, through the use of Item Response Theory, computerized adaptive testing, and the development of new computerized tests. The contributors study the use of computer systems to address person-job match and vocational guidance. They also describe selection to various officer candidate programs and examine the criteria of enlisted performance during peacetime.

Military Personnel Measurement covers the full scope of military personnel technology and includes discussions of current topics including: computerized vocational guidance systems; advances in vocational testing; personnel classification; evaluations of enlisted performance. Students and professionals in the areas of personnel management, business administration, military studies, or anyone interested in the use of new technology in the testing and evaluation of personnel, will find Military Personnel Measurement a valuable resource.

MARTIN F. WISKOFF is a Senior Scientist at the Defense Personnel Security Research and Education Center, Monterey, and formerly the Director of the Manpower and Personnel Laboratory of the Navy Personnel Research and Development Center, San Diego. He is a past president of the Division of Military Psychology of the American Psychological Association and is the founder and editor of the Division journal, Military Psychology.

GLENN M. RAMPTON is Assistant Vice-President (Human Resources) for York University in Toronto, Canada, and formerly the Commanding Officer of the Canadian Forces Personnel Applied Research Unit, Toronto. He is a past president of the Military Testing Association and he has been active in many professional associations at both the national and international level.