Psychometric Issues Related to the Five-Vector Model: Knowledge, Models and Tools to Improve the Effectiveness of Naval Distance Learning
Abstract
The Navy's five-vector model provides a comprehensive specification of the requirements for performance-based advancement of military personnel. The effectiveness of the model for making performance-based advancement decisions will depend heavily on the psychometric quality of the individual measures and on the psychometric models that are used to combine the information from the measures that comprise each of the vectors of the model. This report considers the vectors one at a time and then discusses challenges in combining information across the five vectors to make performance-based advancement decisions. Analysis results suggest that it is likely that the measurement information will vary across and within vectors in terms of validity and reliability, that the profile of information is likely to be uneven across vectors, and the information from one vector may even conflict with that from another vector. These properties can be expected to make the tasks of combining and integrating the information across vectors quite challenging.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Jun 01, 2006
- Accession Number
- ADA450134
Entities
People
- Eva L. Baker
- Robert L. Linn
- Stephen B. Dunbar
Organizations
- University of Colorado Boulder