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Author Education, Commission on Behavioral and Social Sciences and

Title Modeling Cost and Performance for Military Enlistment : Report of a Workshop
Published Washington : National Academies Press, 1900

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Description 1 online resource (172 pages)
Contents ""Modeling Cost and Performance for Military Enlistment""; ""Copyright""; ""Preface""; ""Contents""; ""Opening Remarks: The Nexus Between Science and Policy""; ""JOB PERFORMANCE MEASUREMENT AND ENLISTMENT STANDARDS""; ""RECRUIT QUALITY: ISSUE OF SCIENCE OR POLICY""; ""RECRUIT QUALITY, PERFORMANCE, AND COST""; ""DENOUEMENT""; ""APPRECIATION""; ""Cost/Performance Trade-off Model""; ""Part I: The Context of the Enlistment Standards Project""; ""ORIGINS OF THE JPM PROJECT""; ""PROVIDING COST/PERFORMANCE TRADE-OFFS IN LINKING ENLISTMENT STANDARDS TO JOB PERFORMANCE""; ""WORKSHOP PRESENTATIONS""
""THE PERFORMANCE METRIC: DESCRIPTION OF THE SCALE FOR HANDS-ON PERFORMANCE QUALIFICATION""""Task Sampling""; ""Task Scoring""; ""Combining Scores from Different Tasks""; ""A NORMATIVE APPROACH""; ""Samples""; ""Variables""; ""Analyses""; ""Findings""; ""CRITERION-REFERENCED APPROACHES""; ""Phase II Design""; ""Phase II Results""; ""Comparison of Task-DPG and Task-APG Results""; ""Additional Results from Phase III""; ""Summary of SYNVAL Standard-Setting Results""; ""CONCLUSIONS""; ""Summary of Findings""; ""Implications for Further Research""; ""Enhancing Performance Level Descriptions""
""Linking Job Characteristics to Performance Distribution Targets""""Linking Performance Distribution Targets to Unit Effectiveness and Readiness""; ""REFERENCES""; ""PREDICTING JOB PERFORMANCE SCORES WITHOUT PERFORMANCE DATA""; ""VALIDITY GENERALIZATION""; ""SYNTHETIC VALIDITY""; ""MULTILEVEL REGRESSION ANALYSIS""; ""An Example""; ""The Building Blocks of the Linkage Equation: Individual- and Job-Characteristic Variables""; ""Derivation of the Individual-Characteristic Variables""; ""Derivation of the Job-Characteristic Variables""; ""Specification of the Linkage Equation""
""Structure of the Linkage Parameters""""The Parameters for the Linkage Equation""; ""Variance of Predicted Performance Scores""; ""Deriving Job-Specific Equations""; ""Validation of the Primary Linkage Equation""; ""Method""; ""Results""; ""Shrinkage Formulae""; ""Comparison of Adjusted and Cross-Validity R2 Values""; ""Comparison of Validity Coefficients to the Literature""; ""Summary""; ""Discussion""; ""ACKNOWLEDGMENTS""; ""REFERENCES""; ""Part III: The Cost/Performance Trade-off Model""; ""THE ACCESSION QUALITY COST/PERFORMANCE TRADE-OFF MODEL""; ""INTRODUCTION""
Bibliography ""REFERENCES""""MILITARY MANPOWER QUALITY: PAST, PRESENT, AND FUTURE""; ""THE HISTORY OF THE QUALITY ISSUE""; ""Quality and the All-Volunteer Force""; ""The Search for Quality Standards""; ""QUALITY REQUIREMENTS AND TRENDS""; ""Quality Requirements, 1985�1989""; ""Trends in Enlisted Accessions and Quality""; ""Quality Supply and Demand""; ""FUTURE TRENDS AND ACTIVE-RESERVE ISSUES""; ""CONCLUSION""; ""REFERENCES""; ""Part II Job Performance Measurement Issues""; ""SETTING PERFORMANCE GOALS FOR THE DOD LINKAGE MODEL""
Notes ""Description of the model""
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Subject Soldiers -- Rating of -- United States -- Mathematical models -- Congresses
Recruiting and enlistment -- Mathematical models
SUBJECT United States -- Armed Forces -- Recruiting, enlistment, etc. -- Mathematical models -- Congresses
Subject United States
Genre/Form Conference papers and proceedings
Form Electronic book
Author Green, Bert F
Mavor, Anne S
ISBN 9780309586535
0309586534