Multi-faceted, Multi-dimensional Strategies and Tools for Leadership Assessment.

"Proper Leadership Development in the Army and other DoD services is a critical factor in maintaining excellence in core competencies required to meet the many and varied challenges faced in diverse military operations. Leadership Assessment, particularlyof junior officers, is a necessary means of insuring progress and development for senior ranks commensurate with the needs of the services and the demands of the jobs. Mirum proposes a multi-faceted, multi-dimensional battery of measurement strategies andtechniques to significantly enhance, expand, and validate data collection and data analysis of pertinent interest and valuable utility to the Army. Among the techniques we propose are: archival measures; problem solving and decision making exercisesunder various constraints and stressors; neuropsychological and physiological measures; and various techniques for measuring situational knowledge, environmental scanning, situational awareness, situational assessment, options recognition, judgement, anddecision making processes. Our goals for Phase II are to deliver to the Army a "toolbox" of assessment strategies and assessment tools and data collection instruments that will provide objective and well supported subjective measurements. The range ofapplication of one or more tools will span from individual interaction through web based assessment services to classroom and simulation environments, to field environments. Our tool set will provide the Army with a highly innovative, comprehensive,validating means of measuring and assessing leadership development which we think will constitute a next generations system for these tasks. We believe the results will be much greater objectivity, range, repeatability, consistency, diagnostics, andpredictability of outcomes. As mentioned in the technical abstract, we believe the system developed under the auspices of this STTR will have great value not only to the Army but to the other uniformed services. By extension and adaptation of thesestrategies, methods, and tools, we think the a large a