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| Summary |
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| Acknowledgments |
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Methodology of Studies in This Report |
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Organization of This Report |
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Chapter Two Manager Views of Benefits and Challenges of SAT |
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Benefits of and Challenges to Removing the SAT |
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Chapter Three The Validity of SAT Scores |
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Challenges' in Assessing the SAT-EPR Relationship |
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Chapter Four Evaluating the SAT and Related Fitness Tests Using Physical Task Simulations |
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Validation and Study Purpose |
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Chapter Five What are the Physical Requirements to Perform in Different AFSCs? |
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Distribution of SAT Requirements and Airmen in the Air Force |
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Representativeness of the 21 Selected AFSCs |
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Chapter Six Summary of Criterion-Related Validation Study |
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Evaluating Combinations of Tests |
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Do the Options Combining Fitness Tests Predict Performance Equally Well for Men and Women? |
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Chapter Seven Courses of Action and Implementation |
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Courses of Action for the Air Force to Consider |
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| Appendix A Survey of CFMs on the SAT |
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| Appendix B Email Recruiting Volunteers for Pre-Test |
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| Appendix C Numbers of Airmen and AFSCs that Participated in the Pre-Test (April 15, 2015) |
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| Appendix D Emails Recruiting Volunteers for Reliability and Validation Studies |
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| Appendix E Email sent to Subject-Matter Experts to Identify Physically Demanding Tasks |
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| Appendix F Physical Task Matrix |
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| Appendix G Movement Classification Questionnaire (MCQ) |
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| Appendix H List of AFSCs Interviewed by the RAND Team |
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| Appendix I Survey Items |
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| Appendix J Additional Information About HumRRO's Criterion-Related Validation Study Efforts |
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| Appendix K Technical Background for Additional RAND Analyses |
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| References |
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