ABSTRACT
The basis of tailored testing (TT) is the existence of some built-in capacity for the adjustment of a testing procedure to the individual testee. Each person receives a test-treatment tailored to some extent to suit him: two other names given to this kind of adjustable procedure are individualized testing and adaptive testing. Tailoring is thus regarded as extending to the occupational preferences of the individual recruit, to the qualifications for the available Army employments and to decisions on his acceptability for specific jobs. The peaked tests are most measurement-efficient around the average level of ability and relatively poor outside this middle range, while the TT have a much flatter curve generally superior except about the average. The with-chance success curves are lower illustrating a degradation of measurement efficiency resulting from the possibility of guessing correctly; however, the assumption made here is of random guessing which probably over-estimates the loss.
