THE UTILITY OF OER WORD PICTURES AS DISCRIMINATORS,
Abstract
The document is concerned with a trend of Air Force officer effectiveness reports which has given problems. The overall numerical ratings assigned to evaluate performance have become questioned as effective criteria for discriminating individual performance for promotion and special assignment purposes. The main goal of the study was to see if the word picture portion of the officer effectiveness report can be used to discriminate performance. Within each set of word pictures, average correlations were computed for each group of ten judges to assess interjudge reliability. Rank order statistics were computed for differing numbers of judges from the ten from each group to assess whether optimum reliability would occur with fewer than ten judges. A composite rank order for each set was computed by averaging the rankings across each word picture. The composite rank orders were correlated with the actual criteria ordering. The question is raised as to whether word descriptions can be used as performance discriminators. (Author)
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Jul 01, 1970
- Accession Number
- AD0713608
Entities
People
- Charles D. Gorman
- Harold S. Coyle Jr.