Computerised Test Generation for Cross-National Military Recruitment

Author: Irvine   S.H.;  

Publisher: Ios Press‎

Publication year: 2014

E-ISBN: 9781614993636

P-ISBN(Hardback):  9781614993629

Subject: E123 cadre system, personnel management

Keyword: null 心理学

Language: ENG

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“‘Computerised Test Generation for Cross-National Military Recruitment’ by Prof. Sidney H. Irvine is a handbook for use in occupational psychology, test construction and psychometrics. The book describes the development of the British Army Recruitment Battery (BARB) by Prof. Irvine and his colleagues at the University of Plymouth. BARB is a computer-administered selection battery that is still in use to this day and is capable of developing new parallel tests for every candidate in the recruitment process. In telling the story, Sidney Irvine describes not only the development of the battery itself, funded by the UK Ministry of Defence, but all the work that went on before and afterwards, in the United Kingdom, with European allies and in the United States. _x000D_ Prof. Irvine argues that judicious application of the current state-of-the art in psychometric selection tests can be used to maximise retention and minimise attrition. As such, this long-awaited book will be of great interest to psychologists, psychometricians, test developers, those involved in personnel selection and all with an interest in military history, in particular the history of military science. With a foreword and chapter introductions from a worldwide array of subject matter experts, the book also has a full subject index and an extensive bibliography. I commend it heartily.” — Professor Jamie Hacker Hughes CPsychol CSci FBPsS, Former Defence Consultant Advisor in Psychology, Ministry of Defence, Unit

Chapter

CHAPTER 3: Lesson 3: What Tests to Choose: Evidence-Centred Sources

CHAPTER 4: Learning Lesson 3: Testing Tests in the Laboratory

CHAPTER 5: Lesson 4: Scoring with Automatic Item Generation

Part 2: BARB: The British Army Recruit Battery

Introduction to CHAPTER 6 by J. Anderson

CHAPTER 6: BARB: From Paper and Pencil Analogues to Prototypes

CHAPTER 7: Lesson 5: BARB Validations Using Military Criteria

Introduction to CHAPTER 8 by P. Cawkill

CHAPTER 8: On Board with the Royal Navy

CHAPTER 9: Gunnery and Electronics: Learning to Know How

Part 3: The Second Generation

Introduction to CHAPTER 10 by P.C. Kyllonen

CHAPTER 10: From Plymouth to the USA: Another Generation

CHAPTER 11: USA: the Computer-Delivered `Second' Phase

Introduction to CHAPTER 12 by J. Wulf with T. Kutschke

CHAPTER 12: Psychometric Counsel from Europe, with a commentary by F.J. Lescreve on `Belgium: The Operational Campaign'

CHAPTER 13: The Politics of Psychometrics: Diversity or Adversity?

Part 4: The Shape of Things to Come

Introduction to CHAPTER 14 by M.D. Matthews

CHAPTER 14: The Attributes of Attrition: a Thankless Quest?

CHAPTER 15: Attrition Screens: Convention, Practice, Theory

CHAPTER 16: The Psychometrics of Recruitment and Attrition

List of Tables and Figures

References and Bibliography

Subject Index

Abbreviations

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