Beyond proficiency on occupationally specific tasks, the U.S. Air Force expects members to develop proficiency on institutionally valued "soft skill" competencies (e.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAptitude requirements for US Air Force officer commissioning include completion of a college degree and minimum scores on the Air Force Officer Qualifying Test (AFOQT) Verbal and Quantitative composites. Although the AFOQT has demonstrated predictive validity for officer training, the Air Force has striven to improve predictive validity and diversity. To this end, a Situational judgment Test (SJT) was added to the AFOQT in 2015.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe predictive validity of the Tailored Adaptive Personality Assessment System (TAPAS), the U.S. Army's first computer-adaptive personality test incorporating multidimensional pairwise preference items, has been demonstrated for training performance in both the Army and Air Force.
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