Surrogates for Mechanical Maintenance Job Performance
Published Date: March 1, 1993
In times of budgetary constraint, the Marine Corps must assess its need for high aptitude enlisted recruits. Ideally, hands-on performance tests would provide the benchmark measure of job performance against which the Marine Corps could assess its enlistment aptitude standards and the proficiency of its personnel. However, hands-on performance tests are too expensive to use for ongoing monitoring of aptitude standards and evaluation of training needs. Surrogate measures, such as job knowledge test, might provide performance benchmarks at a fraction of the cost of hands-on tests. This paper assesses the usefulness of several surrogate job performance measures for evaluating enlistment aptitude standard and determining USMC training needs.
