The development and validation of a graduate leader competency questionnaire: Arguing the need for a graduate leader performance measure

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jacques S. Pienaar ◽  
Carl C. Theron
Keyword(s):  
Work Group ◽  
Psychometric Evaluation ◽  
Performance Measure ◽  
Competency Model ◽  
Leadership Potential ◽  
Competency Models ◽  
Psychological Mechanism ◽  
Leader Performance ◽  
Or Team ◽  
Development And Validation

This article deals with the need for the conceptualisation and operationalisation of a modern graduate leader performance construct and the development and psychometric evaluation of a (graduate) leader competency questionnaire. The need for an investigation into the graduate leader performance construct is motivated against the backdrop of the availability of a new generation of leaders given the impending retirement of the world’s most senior management talent. Generation Y is singled out as a critical resource pool whose leadership potential needs to be tapped to enhance organisational performance and improve the economic fortunes of our country. However, it is pointed out that our understanding of this generation, as well as the psychological mechanism that determines how leaders influence various aspects of an organisation, work group or team to bring about optimal performance at a collective level, is fragmented and incomplete. Accordingly, we make suggestions for expanding contemporary conceptualisations of competency models so as to merge an expanded form of a competency model with the notion of a nomological network in providing a comprehensive explanation for the psychological mechanism that regulates graduate leader performance within organisational settings. The explication of such a competency model logically needs to start with the conceptualisation of the graduate leader performance construct. The validation of such a competency model will necessitate in future, amongst others, a measure of the competencies comprising the graduate leader performance construct as well.

Proposals for Aligning Disaster Health Competency Models

2013 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 8-12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kenneth W. Schor ◽  
Brian A. Altman
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Workforce Development ◽  
Building Blocks ◽  
Competency Model ◽  
Just In Time ◽  
Daily Routine ◽  
Test And Evaluation ◽  
Competency Models ◽  
Response And Recovery ◽  
Model Alignment

AbstractTo standardize the key building blocks of disaster health competency models (content, structure, and process), we recommend a reinterpretation of the research, development, test, and evaluation construct (RDT&E) as a novel organizing framework for creating and presenting disaster health competency models. This approach seeks to foster national alignment of disaster health competencies. For scope and completeness, model developers should consider the need and identify appropriate content in at least 4 broad areas: disaster-type domain, systems domain, clinical domain, and public health domain. The whole disaster health competency model should reflect the challenges of the disaster setting to acknowledge the realities of disaster health practice and to shape the education and workforce development flowing from the model. Additional issues for consideration are whether competency models should address response and recovery just-in-time learning and whether the concept of “daily routine doctrine” can contribute to disaster health competency models. The recommendations seek to establish a strategic reference point for disaster competency model alignment within the health workforce.(Disaster Med Public Health Preparedness. 2013;7:8-12)

Development of an Air Combat Performance Measure

1988 ◽  
Vol 32 (18) ◽  
pp. 1207-1211
Author(s):  
Gary S. Thomas ◽  
David C. Miller
Keyword(s):  
Performance Feedback ◽  
Diagnostic Performance ◽  
Performance Measure ◽  
Regression Analyses ◽  
Rater Agreement ◽  
Air Combat ◽  
Measure Of Performance ◽  
Development And Validation ◽  
Neutral Posture ◽  
Visual Range

The purpose of this research was to formulate a unitary measure of performance for simulated one-versus-one, within visual range, air-to-air combat. The measure will serve as a criterion for the development and validation of specific measures of ACM skill that can be used to provide diagnostic performance feedback to pilots. Two experiments were conducted in which fighter pilots served as judges and rank-ordered, from most to least desirable, hypothetical ACM engagement outcomes. Outcome variables included (1) whether or not the hypothetical pilot achieved a “kill,” (2) whether or not he survived the mission, (3) the percent of time the pilot was in an offensive, defensive, or neutral posture, (4) length of engagement, and (5) posture at the beginning and end of the engagement (offensive, defensive, or neutral). In order to determine inter-rater agreement among judges in Experiment I, their rankings were correlated. Correlations ranged from .93 to .99. Pilots' rankings of engagement outcomes were subjected to linear regression analyses to derive equations that could be used as a unitary measure of ACM success. The regression equation in Experiment I accounted for 95% of the variance in rankings, and the composite regression model calculated in Experiment II accounted for more than 70% of the variance.

scholarly journals Building Foresight Capacity: Toward a Foresight Competency Model

2017 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 123-141 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andy Hines ◽  
Jay Gary ◽  
Cornelia Daheim ◽  
Luke van der Laan
Keyword(s):  
Competency Model ◽  
Basic Question ◽  
Competency Models

This article introduces the Foresight Competency Model, which addresses the basic question of what one ought to be able to do as a professional futurist. It describes how other fields have used competency models to define what their professionals do, documents how the Association of Professional Futurists (APF) developed this model, explains the interrelated features of the model, and suggests ways that organizations can use the model to enhance the foresight capacity of their talent.

Public health preparedness and response competency model methodology

2013 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 49-56 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elizabeth Ablah, PhD, MPH ◽  
Elizabeth McGean Weist, MA, MPH, CPH ◽  
John E. McElligott, MPH, CPH ◽  
Laura A. Biesiadecki, MSPH, CPH ◽  
Audrey R. Gotsch, DrPH, MCHES ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Core Competency ◽  
Competency Model ◽  
National Standard ◽  
Public Health Workforce ◽  
Public Health Preparedness ◽  
Training And Education ◽  
The Public ◽  
Competency Models ◽  
Control And Prevention

Objective: The Pandemic and All-Hazards Preparedness Act calls for establishing a competency-based training program to train public health practitioners. To inform such training, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Association of Schools of Public Health managed groups of experts to produce a competency model which could function as a national standard of behaviorally based, observable skills for the public health workforce to prevent, protect against, respond to, and recover from all hazards.Design: A systematic review of existing competency models generated a competency model of proposed domains and competencies.Participants: National stakeholders were engaged to obtain consensus through a three-stage Delphi-like process.Results: The Delphi-like process achieved 84 percent, 82 percent, and 79 percent response rates in its three stages. Three hundred sixty six unique individuals responded to the three-round process, with 45 percent (n = 166) responding to all three rounds. The resulting competency model features 18 competencies within four core learning domains targeted at midlevel public health workers.Conclusions: Practitioners and academics have adopted the Public Health Preparedness and Response Core Competency Model, some of whom have formed workgroups to develop curricula based on the model. Efforts will be needed to develop evaluation materials for training and education programs to refine the model as well as for future training and education initiatives.

Leader Performance Measure

2004 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ceasar Douglas ◽  
Anthony P. Ammeter
Keyword(s):  
Performance Measure ◽  
Leader Performance

The Dyslexia Marker Test for Children: Development and Validation of a New Test

2021 ◽  
pp. 153450842110635
Author(s):  
Trude Nergård-Nilssen ◽  
Oddgeir Friborg
Keyword(s):  
Operating Characteristic ◽  
Reliability And Validity ◽  
Psychometric Evaluation ◽  
Principal Component ◽  
Phoneme Awareness ◽  
Rapid Automatized Naming ◽  
Marker Test ◽  
Children Development ◽  
Development And Validation ◽  
Practical Implications

This article describes the development and psychometric properties of a new Dyslexia Marker Test for Children (Dysmate-C). The test was designed to identify Norwegian students who need special instructional attention. The computerized test includes measures of letter knowledge, phoneme awareness, rapid automatized naming, working memory, decoding, and spelling skills. Data were collected data from a sample of more than 1,100 students. Item response theory (IRT) was used for the psychometric evaluation, and principal component analysis for checking uni-dimensionality. IRT was further used to select and remove items, which significantly shortened the test battery without sacrificing reliability or discriminating ability. Cronbach’s alphas ranged between .84 and .95. Validity was established by examining how well the Dysmate-C identified students already diagnosed with dyslexia. Logistic regression and receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve analyses indicated good to excellent accuracy in separating children with dyslexia from typical children (area under curve [AUC] = .92). The Dysmate-C meets the standards for reliability and validity. The use of regression-based norms, voice-over instructions, easy scoring procedures, accurate timing, and automatic computation of scores, make the test a useful tool. It may be used in as part screening procedure, and as part of a diagnostic assessment. Limitations and practical implications are discussed.

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