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Opening Remarks: The Nexus Between Science and Policy
Pages 1-6

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... They are considering military service, but, at the time they make this decision, they are still civilians. All other offices within the DoD with military personnel management responsibilities deal with Service members people who already have entered service and taken the oath of appointment or enlistment.
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... It also illustrates how research can be conducted and then implemented in a way that actually changes practices and procedures. JOB PERFORMANCE MEASUREMENT AND ENLISTMENT STANDARDS The JPM Project had its origins in the misnorming of the DoD enlistment test.
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... In 1985, the department submitted a report to the House and Senate committees on Armed Services establishing military recruit quality requirements for the rest of the 1980s, and we were virtually defenseless to justify those requirements and the associated budgets. We could say that smart people perform better than less-smart people.
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... However, if you consider recruit quality levels for the 1980s, at which time the Services, including the Army, said the force was excellent, the quality that we have recruited thus far in fiscal 1993 is still considerably above the average that we experienced throughout that decade. In looking at predicted performance levels using the job performance model, we conclude that a floor of 90 percent recruits who are high school graduates and 60 percent scoring in AFQT Categories I-IIIA are benchmarks to which we should aspire.
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... I receive numerous telephone calls from people outside industrial psychology who have obtained copies of the book by the Committee on the Performance of Military Personnel on performance in the workplace; they are impressed with potential applications to their professions. I also should tell you that the National Academy of Sciences' new Board on Testing and Assessment will provide counsel to a number of government organizations facing difficult and complex measurement problems.
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... In addition, there are the chairs of the Job Performance Measurement Working Group, two of whom are here today: Dickie Harris, Human Resources Research Organization (HumRRO) , and Tom Ulrich, Defense Manpower Data Center.
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