Tacit Knowledge in Military Leadership: Supporting Instrument Development.

Abstract

Army officers, drawn from three different institutional settings, evaluated tacit-knowledge items to Support development of tests of tacit knowledge for military leadership. Items were identified that differentiated leaders varying in leadership experience (at a level of leadership) or in rated leadership effectiveness. Subject-matter experts also sorted the items into categories of like items. Analyses of the categories identified dimensions that described the organization of the items. Item discrimination and organizational location will be used to select materials for construction of tests of tacit knowledge for each three levels of Army Leadership: platoon leader, company commander, and battalion commander.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
May 01, 1996
Accession Number
ADA310258

Entities

People

  • George B. Forsythe
  • Joseph A. Horvath
  • Patrick J. Sweeney
  • Richard C. Bullis
  • Robert Sternberg

Organizations

  • Yale University

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical
  • C4I
  • Human Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Artillery
  • Behavioral Sciences
  • Cognition
  • Computer Programming
  • Construction
  • Databases
  • Doctrine
  • Information Processing
  • Information Science
  • Military Education
  • Psychology
  • Reliability
  • Social Psychology
  • Social Sciences
  • Students
  • Surveys
  • United States Military Academy

Fields of Study

  • Education
  • Psychology

Readers

  • Military Training and Readiness Simulation
  • Organizational Process Management (OPM).
  • Psychometric Testing or Psychological Assessment.