Novel Assessment Tools for Empirical Determinants of Direct Leadership

The overall goal of this project is to improve the assessment, diagnosis, and prediction of direct leadership. To achieve these goals, the following objectives will be addressed in Phase 1. These are: (1) conduct cognitive task analyses to define directleadership performance; (2)develop an event-based measures of performance and effectiveness; (3) utilize cognitive test design to develop new measures of job knowledge, skill, effort, and experience; (4) develop a detailed plan for validating the directleadership battery; and (5)develop requirements for software tools to support the assessment effort.The application of a principled approach to test design should result in significant improvements in the diagnostic utility and predictive validity ofdirect leadership. The resulting products should have broad potential for the assessment and development of leadership talent.