Evaluation and innovation in the Navy's Personnel Research Laboratories
Subtitle: Development, validation, and trial application of a computer program to facilitate judgmental appraisal
By: by James K. Arima [and] Richard W. Mister
Contributors: Mister, Richard W.; Naval Postgraduate School (U.S.)
Publisher: Naval Postgraduate School
Published: 1972
Place of publication: Monterey, California
Language: eng
Number of pages: 72
Subjects: Models; United States; United States. Navy; Personnel management
Description: The purpose of the study was to develop, validate, and test apply a procedure for obtaining qualitative judgments economically and efficiently. The Ford procedure for scaling partially ordered sets of rankings was programmed and validated using an abstract judgmental tasks with an extrinsic criterion. It was given a trial application requiring the ordering on merit of current personnel research projects. Both validation and trial application results were highly satisfactory. It was concluded that the Ford procedure could be used to obtain scaled qualitative judgments in a wide variety of settings with accuracy, efficiency, and economy. Flow charts, data setup, and the complete computer program are given.
Notes: Title from cover.

Sponsoring military activity: Personnel Research Division (Pers-A3), Bureau of Naval Personnel.

Project no. P0-1-0001 Naval Personnel Research and Development Laboratory.

"May 1972"--Cover.

"NPS55AA72051A"--Cover.

DTIC Identifiers: Computer aided analysis.

Author(s) subject terms: Research management, development management, laboratory effectiveness, in-house laboratories, personnel research, rating scale, Ford Program, qualitative data.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 33).

"Approved for public release; distribution unlimited"--Cover.

Technical report; 1972.

ck/ 9/10/09.