LEADER 04234nam 2200625 450 001 9910813578503321 005 20230803203443.0 010 $a1-61499-363-7 035 $a(CKB)3710000000149593 035 $a(EBL)1720832 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001263424 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12525241 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001263424 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11239985 035 $a(PQKB)10247380 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1720832 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1720832 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10898087 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL621552 035 $a(OCoLC)882610566 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000149593 100 $a20140808h20142014 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aComputerised test generation for cross-national military recruitment $ea handbook /$fby Sidney H. Irvine ; foreword, Isaac I. Bejar & Robert J. Mislevy 210 1$aAmsterdam, Netherlands ;$aFairfax, Virginia :$cIOS Press,$d2014. 210 4$dİ2014 215 $a1 online resource (480 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a1-61499-362-9 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $a""Title Page""; ""Contents""; ""Foreword, I.I. Bejar and R.J. Mislevy""; ""Preface and Acknowledgements""; ""Part 1: Five Lessons for a Generation of Tests""; ""CHAPTER 1: Macdonald's Askaris: Five Lessons for BARB""; ""CHAPTER 2: Lessons 1 and 2: Culture Contexts and Test Instructions""; ""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"" 327 $a""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"" 327 $a""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"" 330 $a"'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 it 606 $aRecruiting and enlistment 606 $aOccupational aptitude tests 606 $aSoldiers$xRating of 615 0$aRecruiting and enlistment. 615 0$aOccupational aptitude tests. 615 0$aSoldiers$xRating of. 676 $a016.35522 700 $aIrvine$b S. H.$0893812 702 $aBejar$b Isaac I. 702 $aMislevy$b Robert J. 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910813578503321 996 $aComputerised test generation for cross-national military recruitment$94003477 997 $aUNINA