Success and Failure in Skill Qualification Testing: Troop Views

Abstract

A contribution to the ongoing development of the SQT system would be made by exploring reasons for success and failure in testing. One source of this informtion is enlisted soldiers who take the tests. Accordingly, enlisted soldiers drawn from combat arms, combat support and combat service support MOSs were presented with questions taken from 1980 written SQTs. The questions used were those on which substantial numbers of testees had succeeded or failed. The soldiers were asked to account for the widespread success or failure by other members of their MOS. Most attributed both success and failure to whether tasks being tested were peformed as part of unit duties. The lowest number of attributions concerned personal efforts to prepare for written testing. This suggests a need to organize and standardize written test training and either to eliminate or clearly stipulate individual soldiers' responsibilities for test preparation.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 1981
Accession Number
ADP001401

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  • Joan Harman

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  • U.S. Army Research Institute for the Behavioral and Social Sciences

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  • Human Systems

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  • Army Training
  • Bridges
  • Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation
  • Combat Support
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  • Health Services
  • Military Research
  • Qualifications
  • Social Sciences
  • Task Performance And Analysis
  • Training
  • United States
  • Warfare

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