Fort Benning
U.S. Army Fort Benning and The Maneuver Center of Excellence
United States Army Research Institute Research Unit Fort Benning
United States Army Research Institute Research Unit Fort Benning
Talent Assessment and Feedback
Purpose: To develop innovative methods that assess, track, and provide feedback on critical cognitive, social, and other attributes that are needed to optimize Leader and Soldier performance across their careers.
Payoff:
- Increased capability to effectively measure Leader attributes in institutional training and operational units.
- Training efficiencies due to the delivery of real-time feedback during classroom, field, and unit training events.
- Talent management processes enhanced by methods to more effectively assess and track development of Leader and Soldier skills, attributes, and competencies.
Research Reports and Products:
- Validated measures for assessing Leader attributes.
- Tucker, J.S., & Brou, R. J. (In Press). Leader Problem-Solving Profiles: Development of an Assessment Battery and Feedback Tool. Fort Belvoir, VA: U.S. Army Research Institute for the Behavioral and Social Sciences.
- Toumbeva, T. H., Ratwani, K. L, Diedrich, F., Flanagan, S. M., & Uhl, E. R. (In Press). Development of Leadership BARS. Fort Belvoir, VA: U.S. Army Research Institute for the Behavioral and Social Sciences.
- Ratwani, K. L., Dean, C. R., Knott, C., Diedrich, F., Flanagan, S., Walker, K., & Tucker, J. S. (2016). Measuring Leader Attributes in the Army Reconnaissance Course. Fort Belvoir, VA: U.S. Army Research Institute for the Behavioral and Social Sciences.
Access: http://www.dtic.mil/docs/citations/AD1003296
- Instructional Methods Tool for training developers, course managers, and instructors.
- http://www.lcs.ts.northropgrumman.com/projects/imt/
- Tucker, J. S., James, D. R., Ortegel, P. S., Patel, T., Lucero, C. R., & Fleenor, H. (2017). Instructional Methods Tool. Fort Belvoir, VA: U.S. Army Research Institute for the Behavioral and Social Sciences.
Access: http://www.dtic.mil/docs/citations/AD1040425
- Mobile-based applications for assessing and tracking Instructor, Leader, and Soldier critical skills and competencies.
- Dean, C. R., Uhl, E. R., Ratwani, K. L., & Nargi, B. (In Press). Development and Evaluation of a Mobile Assessment Tool for the Master Leader Course. Fort Belvoir, VA: Army Research Institute for the Behavioral and Social Sciences.
- Dean, C. R., Ratwani, K. L., Diedrich, F., Flanagan, S., Nargi, B., & Tucker, J. S. (In Press). Measuring and Tracking Skills in the Army Reconnaissance Course. Fort Belvoir, VA: Army Research Institute for the Behavioral and Social Sciences.
- Objective assessments of social and cognitive skills using innovative methods (e.g., natural language processing).
- Fleenor, H., Hodhod, R., & Brou, R. (2017, November). Improving Assessment with Text Mining. Paper presented at 2017 Interservice/Industry Training, Simulation, and Education Conference (I/ITSEC), Orlando, FL.
- Brou, R., Stallings, G., Stearns, I., Normand, S., & Ledford, B. (In Review). Building Automated Assessments of Interpersonal Leadership Skills. Paper submitted to 2018 Interservice/Industry Training, Simulation, and Education Conference (I/ITSEC), Orlando, FL.
- Brou, R., Morath, R., Barnieu, J., Bryson, J., Grantz, J., Hyland, J., & Flanagan, S. (In Review). Virtual Supplementation of Tactical Decision-Making Training. Paper submitted to 2018 Interservice/Industry Training, Simulation, and Education Conference (I/ITSEC), Orlando, FL.