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Technical Report 1312

Assessing the Tailored Adaptive Personality Assessment System (TAPAS) as an MOS Qualification Instrument

Christopher D. Nye, Fritz Drasgow, Oleksandr S. Chernyshenko, and Stephen Stark Drasgow Consulting Group U. Christean Kubisiak Personnel Decisions Research Institutes Leonard A. White and Irwin Jose U.S. Army Research Institute

August 2012

United States Army Research Institute for the Behavioral and Social Sciences

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Research accomplished under contract for the Department of the Army

Drasgow Consulting Group, and Personnel Decisions Research Institutes

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MICHELLE SAMS, Ph.D. Director

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1. REPORT DATE (dd-mm-yy)

August 2012

2. REPORT TYPE

Final

3. DATES COVERED (from. . . to)

April 2010 to October 2011

4. TITLE AND SUBTITLE

Assessing the Tailored Adaptive Personality Assessment System (TAPAS) as an MOS Qualification Instrument

6. AUTHOR(S) Christopher D. Nye, Fritz Drasgow, Oleksandr S. Chernyshenko,

Stephen Stark (Drasgow Consulting Group); U. Christean Kubisiak

(Personnel Decisions Research Institutes); Leonard A. White, and Irwin Jose

(U.S. Army Research Institute)

7. PERFORMING ORGANIZATION NAME(S) AND ADDRESS(ES)

Personnel Decisions Research Institutes 100 S Ashley Drive, Ste. 1120 Tampa, FL 33602

9. SPONSORING/MONITORING AGENCY NAME(S) AND ADDRESS(ES)

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

6000 6th Street (Bldg. 1464 / Mail Stop 5610) Fort Belvoir, VA 22060

5a. CONTRACT OR GRANT NUMBER

W91WAW-09-D-0014

5b. PROGRAM ELEMENT NUMBER

622785

5c. PROJECT NUMBER

A790

5d. TASK NUMBER

329

5e. WORK UNIT NUMBER

8. PERFORMING ORGANIZATION REPORT NUMBER

10. MONITOR ACRONYM

ARI

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12. DISTRIBUTION/AVAILABILITY STATEMENT

Approved for public release; distribution is unlimited.

Technical Report 1312

13. SUPPLEMENTARY NOTES

Contracting Officer's Representative and Subject Matter Expert POC: Dr. Leonard White

14. ABSTRACT (Maximum 200 words):

This report examines whether the Tailored Adaptive Personality Assessment System (TAPAS) may be useful for selecting and classifying recruits into Military Occupational Specialties (MOS) and describes the two broad approaches that were taken to evaluate the measure for these purposes. TAPAS data for this research were collected from Army applicants at the Military Entrance Processing Stations (MEPS) between May 2009 and June 2011. In addition, criterion data were collected in the Tier One Performance Screen (TOPS) program. The total sample size for this research was 151,625. With this data, we first examined the validity of TAPAS scales for predicting outcomes in four high density MOS including 11B, 31B, 68W, and 88M. Next, we examined whether the TAPAS scales could be used to differentiate high performers in each MOS from those that would perform better in a different occupation. Using composites of the TAPAS scales, results indicated that some individuals might perform better in an MOS other than the one they were assigned to. Therefore, TAPAS may be useful as a supplement to the current procedures for MOS qualification and classification.

15. SUBJECT TERMS

Enlisted Personnel, Validation of Personality Measures, Selection and Classification

SECURITY CLASSIFICATION OF

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17. ABSTRACT 18. THIS PAGE

Unclassified Unclassified Unclassified

19. LIMITATION OF ABSTRACT

Unlimited

20. NUMBER OF PAGES

93

21. RESPONSIBLE PERSON

Dorothy Young 703-545-2316

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Technical Report 1312

Assessing the Tailored Adaptive Personality Assessment System (TAPAS) as an MOS Qualification Instrument

Christopher D. Nye, Fritz Drasgow, Oleksandr S. Chernyshenko, and Stephen Stark

Drasgow Consulting Group

U. Christean Kubisiak Personnel Decisions Research Institutes

Leonard A. White and Irwin Jose U.S. Army Research Institute

Personnel Assessment Research Unit Tonia S. Heffner, Chief

U.S. Army Research Institute for the Behavioral and Social Sciences 6000 6th Street, Bldg. 1464

Fort Belvoir, Virginia 22060

August 2012

Army Project Number 622785A790

Personnel Performance and Training Technology

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