Planning for the Future: Progress Toward an NCO Competency Assessment Program
Year: 2005
Type: article
Abstract: In the early 1990s, the Department of the Army abandoned its Skill Qualification Test (SQT) program due primarily to maintenance, development, and administration costs. This left a void in the Army's capabilities for assessing job performance qualification. To meet this need, the U.S. Army Research Institute for the Behavioral and Social Sciences (ARI) instituted a 3-year program of feasibility research related to development of a Soldier assessment system that is both effective and affordable. The PerformM21 program has two mutually supporting tracks. The first focuses on the design of a testing program and identification of issues related to its implementation. The second track is a demonstration of concept - starting with a prototype core assessment targeted to all Soldiers eligible for promotion to Sergeant, followed by job-specific prototype assessments for several Military Occupational Specialties (MOS). This report describes the PerformM21 feasibility research program, which is now at the end of the second year of its 3-year plan.
Language: English
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W35035159