Development and Validation of the Restricted Noncommissioned Officer Special Assignment Battery (NSAB)

Abstract

This report describes research to validate a new version of a personality and motivation measure, the Restricted Noncommissioned Officer Special Assignment Battery (NSAB), to inform noncommissioned officer (NCO) special assignment. The current research builds on the U.S. Army Research Institute for Behavioral and Social Sciences (ARI) previous Tailored Adaptive Personality Assessment System (TAPAS) and NSAB research that has shown these measures predict a range of performance and attitudinal criteria for new Soldier selection, military occupational specialty (MOS) qualification, and NCO special assignment selection (recruiters, instructors, drill sergeants, Special Forces). This report covers the preliminary results of data collected to validate a new, restricted version of the NSAB for operational use in a sample of Soldiers attending Basic Leader Course (BLC).

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Nov 01, 2023
Accession Number
AD1214607

Entities

People

  • Christopher Nye
  • Eleanor Lovering
  • Elyssa Johnson
  • Erin O'brien
  • Fritz Drasgow
  • Kelsey Byerly
  • Kristen Horgan
  • Melissa Glorioso
  • Oleksandr S. Chernyshenko
  • Stephen Stark

Organizations

  • Drasgow Consulting Group
  • U.S. Army Research Institute for the Behavioral and Social Sciences

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Applied Psychology
  • Army Personnel
  • Careers
  • Classification
  • Education
  • Instructors
  • Management Personnel
  • Military Research
  • Noncommissioned Officers
  • Personality
  • Personality Assessment
  • Personnel Management
  • Psychology
  • Ratings
  • Social Sciences
  • Statistics
  • Training

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  • Military Training and Readiness Simulation
  • Naval Personnel Management
  • Organizational Psychology.