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The Counseling Assignment Problem

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2025

Joe H. Ward Jr.
Joe H. Ward Jr.*
Affiliation:
Air Force Personnel and Training Research Center
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Abstract

A disposition index, DI, which provides information about each possible placement to be considered in a personnel classification situation is discussed. The index is readily computed by machine methods and can be used by counselors required to make assignments. The use of the disposition index provides an adequate approximation to optimal solutions obtained by other methods.

Type
Original Paper
Information
Psychometrika , Volume 23 , Issue 1 , March 1958 , pp. 55 - 65
Copyright
Copyright © 1958 The Psychometric Society

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This report is based on work done under ARDC Project No. 7702, Task No. 17051, in support of the research and development program of the Air Force Personnel and Training Research Center, Lackland Air Force Base, Texas. Permission is granted for reproduction, translation, publication, use, and disposal in whole and in part by or for the United States Government.

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