Military Training: Its Effectiveness for Technical Specialties Is Unknown
PEMD-91-4
Published: Oct 16, 1990. Publicly Released: Oct 16, 1990.
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Highlights
GAO reviewed the information on which the military services based their evaluations of the effectiveness of their technical training programs, recruit selection, and position classification decisions.
Recommendations
Recommendations for Executive Action
| Agency Affected | Recommendation | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Office of Force Management and Personnel | The Office of Force Management and Personnel should direct the personnel research it coordinates among the individual services to identify more sensitive predictors of classroom for women and minority students from the Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery data it already possesses. |
Closed – Implemented
The Office of the Secretary of Defense (OSD) has initiated research into the validity of current predictors of occupational success for women and minorities.
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| Department of the Army | The Secretary of the Army should direct the Training and Doctrine Command to review the classroom grading procedures identified within the report as deficient, for their accuracy, appropriateness, and reliability. |
Closed – Implemented
The Army has reviewed questionable grading procedures and initiated corrective action.
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| Department of the Navy | The Secretary of the Navy should: (1) establish a firm deadline for developing a training evaluation program; and (2) direct that the adequacy of current resources allocated to this effort be reexamined. |
Closed – Implemented
The Navy has developed an enhanced training feedback system.
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| Office of Force Management and Personnel | The Assistant Secretary of Defense for Force Management and Personnel should review alternative measures of field performance already developed by the services under the Job Performance Measurement project for their potential applicability to training and on-the-job performance evaluation. |
Closed – Implemented
OSD has reviewed alternative and improved measures of field performance.
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Education program evaluationEducational testingEnlisted personnelJob classificationMilitary recruitingMilitary trainingStatistical dataMilitary forcesTest scoresMathematics