Still Soldiers and Scholars? An Analysis of Army Officer Testing traces the history of officer accessions testing and assessment in the U.S. Army from about 1900 until the present day. This book is intended to supplement the series of monographs written by the Army’s Office of Economic and Manpower Analysis (OEMA) that were intended to provide a conceptual and theoretical framework for the development of an Army officer corps strategy.
The focus of Still Soldiers and Scholars? is on the controversial, little understood, and often ignored component of talent management known as cognitive assessment. While the Army has embraced various non-cognitive assessments of individuals’ skills and abilities, which are also admittedly important parts of talent management, it as an institution has been reluctant to place too much of an emphasis on the cognitive testing of officer aspirants.
Foreword.......................................................................... xi
About the Authors ........................................................xiii
Summary ......................................................................... xv
1. Introduction...................................................................1
2. Officer Selection Before World War I ......................31
3. Officer Selection During World War I.....................69
4. Interwar Period.........................................................101
5. Officer Accessions in World War II .......................139
6. Officer Accessions After World War II..................177
7. Vietnam......................................................................223
8. Officer Testing in the Era of the All-Volunteer Force (AVF) ...............................................................251
9. Officer Testing in the Post-Cold War Era..............299
10. Conclusion and Recommendations......................333
Appendix A....................................................................365
Appendix B ....................................................................371
Appendix C....................................................................405
Appendix D....................................................................415
Militray leadership, military educators, ROTC educators and teaching materials developers, military testing officals and developers.
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- Coumbe, Arthur T.
- Analysis of Army Officer Testing
