The Rand Cost-Performance Model for Setting Qualification Standards: Preliminary Comments

Abstract

The Job Performance Measurement Project is a joint-service effort to develop good measures of job performance, to relate these measures to recruit aptitude test scores, and to use this relationship along with cost data to determine enlistment standards. To this end the Rand Corporation has developed a cost-performance model and applied it to the Army Infantryman specialty. Given the importance of the model outcomes to enlistment policy, it is essential to fully understand its assumptions and procedures. This Research Memorandum is intended to be the first in a series in which we attempt to evaluate and apply the model. Keywords: Test construction (psychology).

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 01, 1986
Accession Number
ADA176248

Entities

People

  • Laurie J. May
  • Paul W. Mayberry

Organizations

  • Center for Naval Analyses

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Human Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Attrition
  • Classification
  • Corporations
  • Cost Estimates
  • Enlisted Personnel
  • Equations
  • Force Structure
  • Management Personnel
  • Manpower
  • Marine Corps
  • Measurement
  • Performance Tests
  • Personnel Management
  • Recruiting
  • Recruits
  • Training
  • Warfare

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  • Computational Modeling and Simulation
  • Instructional Design and Training Evaluation.
  • Naval Personnel Management