Eugene Burke

• BSc. (Hons.) Behavioural Sciences - Psychology
• Head of Faculty at eugeneburkeconsulting

There is little information available about operational systems of unproctored Internet testing (UIT) of cognitive ability and how they deal with the threats inherent in UIT. This descriptive study provides a much-needed empirical examination of a large-scale operational UIT system of cognitive ability that implemented test design and verification...

This chapter focuses on sharing experiences over the past decade in addressing business needs for two major and international companies. It starts with the development of a solution to unsupervised Internet testing (UIT) targeted at graduate or campus recruitment that grew out of a need to show efficiencies in talent acquisition processes in the ea...

Data are presented on the gain in aptitude test scores on retest for intervals of up to five years. While the strength of the retest effect was found to differ by type of test, retest effects within test type were found to be almost constant irrespective of the interval between original and retest administrations. The implications of these gains fo...

INTRODUCTIONWhy Ask Whether Training Does Improve Organizational Effectiveness?A Framework for Reviewing The EvidenceThe Published EvidenceReconciling The Evidence: Factors Contributing To Inconsistencies in Research ResultsAnswering The Question: Does Training Improve Organizational Effectiveness?What Should Organizations Do To Make Training More...

Provides snapshots of several research and development actions aimed at addressing the question of what characterizes competent command of a fire ground incident. Looks at two aspects of this question: how to describe fire ground command (what is it that fire ground commanders do?) and what qualities should be looked for in prospective fire ground...

This article addresses one of the perennial problems of pilot selection research: obtaining an adequate sample size for reliable statistical analysis of predictive validity. Results from three studies involving the same computerized tests of instrument comprehension and psychomotor ability were combined in a meta-analysis to determine whether the v...

The critical decision method (CDM) is a technique for obtaining data on real decision making in natural settings. It has been applied in a number of civilian and military settings, and generates data that are rich in content (what happened?), context (when and where did it happen?) and process (why did it happen?). The application described is part...

The purpose of this paper is to provide a brief summary of developments in NATO nations in order to bring these developments to a wider audience. The basis of the survey provided is the information collated by NATO Research Study Group 15 Computer-Based Assessment of Military Personnel as given in its report to NATO Headquarters in 1993.

Results are given from a meta-analysis of validities for aircraft pilot-selection measures. Sixty-eight published studies were identified for the 1940-to-1990 period, from which 468 correlations were extracted for a cumulated sample of 437,258 cases. The method proposed by Hunter and Schmidt (1990b) was applied to produce a bare-bones analysis. Mea...

This report summarizes the literature dealing with aircrew selection research conducted through 1989. It includes English language reports available from the open literature and from the United States, United Kingdom, and other armed services. Over 200 studies were identified using computer-assisted and manual searches of the bibliographic data bas...

This research investigated the relationship between the Air Force Officer Qualifying Test (AFOQT) Form O and performance (pass/fail) in Undergraduate Pilot Training and Undergraduate Navigator Training. It was found that the several subtests and composites currently being used in the pilot and navigator selection had significant correlations with p...

Research indicates that differences in the format of answer sheets and test booklets may result in differences in scores on the Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery (ASVAB). Because these differences in print format represent a loss in the standardization of test administration, they may be treated as a form of score bias. To address this con...

This paper describes efforts conducted to implement computer-based selection testing for officers (pilots and aircraft controllers) in the Royal Air Force. The history leading to the decision to computerize the selection testing is recounted, along with the procedures used to develop computerbased tests equivalent to the existing electromechanical-...