Follow-Up of the Officer Evaluation Center

Abstract

The Army conducted an Officer Evaluation Study at Fort McClellan, Alabama, in early 1960's where about 900 first and second lieutenants underwent three days of evaluation of their technical, administrative combat and leadership skills. Over 2000 measures were taken from performance on 15 exercises. These observations yielded 341 variables which were reduced by factor analysis to 8 factors. In 1981, almost 20 years later, a follow up was conducted. Results showed that OEC summary variables did yield significant discriminant functions and small improvements in prediction of officers military career success over chance for groups of career vs. single-term (2 year) officers.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Mar 01, 1986
Accession Number
ADA168895

Entities

People

  • Frederick N. Dyer
  • Pamela V. Mays-terry

Organizations

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

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical
  • Human Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Active Duty
  • Army Personnel
  • Classification
  • Combat Areas
  • Databases
  • Discriminant Analysis
  • Factor Analysis
  • Military History
  • Military Research
  • Personnel Management
  • Reserve Officer Training Corps
  • Security
  • Site Selection
  • Sites
  • Social Sciences
  • Training
  • Warfare

Fields of Study

  • Psychology

Readers

  • Climatology
  • Computational Modeling and Simulation
  • Military Leadership and Professional Education.