Computerised Test Generation for Cross-National Military Recruitment : A Handbook.

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 -- 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 -- 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.

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