Assessing the Tailored Adaptive Personality Assessment System

Abstract

This report describes research that examined whether the Tailored Adaptive Personality Assessment System (TAPAS) may be useful for identifying Army Soldiers who will perform well in an Army Special Operations Forces (ARSOF) assessment and selection course. TAPAS data were collected from 1,216 Soldier-candidates attending the ARSOF course and were used to predict selection for ARSOF training. Results indicated that several scales were significantly related to Soldier selection and that the TAPAS was useful for differentiating candidates who were successfully selected for ARSOF training from Soldiers who withdrew from the assessment and selection course, either voluntarily or involuntarily. Therefore, the TAPAS appears to be useful for predicting selection following the ARSOF course. Future research directions that can help to expand these findings are discussed.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 2014
Accession Number
ADA596904

Entities

People

  • Christopher Nye
  • Fritz Drasgow
  • J. D. Dressel
  • Leonard A. White
  • Scott A. Beal
  • Stephen Stark

Organizations

  • Drasgow Consulting Group

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Human Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Classification
  • Crime
  • Descriptive Analytics
  • Management Personnel
  • Military Research
  • Personality
  • Personality Assessment
  • Personnel Selection
  • Physical Fitness
  • Recruiting
  • Regression Analysis
  • Situational Awareness
  • Social Sciences
  • Special Operations Forces
  • Statistics
  • Test And Evaluation
  • Training

Fields of Study

  • Psychology

Readers

  • Psychometric Testing or Psychological Assessment.
  • Research Science/Academic Research