Personality and Mission Effectiveness

Abstract

Paper covers the history of Air Force personality research, the current need for personality measures, and the move towards a change in psychometrics that will replace Item Response Theory in performance testing and personality assessment. Details the history and development of the Self Description Inventory (SDI) and SDI+; the need and development of personality measures to enhance person-job-match and increase retention; and the future move towards psychometrics being used to evaluate items based on the decision logic approach. This approach is based on the ability to distinguish between desired classification decisions and not the correlation with a total test vector representing a criterion based upon hypothesized areas of importance.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Oct 01, 2006
Accession Number
ADA594054

Entities

People

  • Johnny J. Weissmuller
  • Kenneth L. Schwartz

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical
  • Human Systems
  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Air Force Personnel
  • Classification
  • Contracts
  • Data Acquisition
  • Department Of Defense
  • Enlisted Personnel
  • Governments
  • Military Organizations
  • Performance Tests
  • Personality
  • Personality Assessment
  • Personnel Management
  • Psychological Tests
  • Recruiting
  • United States
  • United States Government

Fields of Study

  • Psychology

Readers

  • Psychometric Testing or Psychological Assessment.
  • Systems Analysis and Design