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Multi-Tasking Assessment for Personnel Selection and Development

Award Information
Agency: Department of Defense
Branch: Army
Contract: W74V8H-05-C-0014
Agency Tracking Number: A043-027-1436
Amount: $69,932.00
Phase: Phase I
Program: SBIR
Solicitation Topic Code: A04-027
Solicitation Number: 2004.3
Timeline
Solicitation Year: 2004
Award Year: 2005
Award Start Date (Proposal Award Date): 2005-01-03
Award End Date (Contract End Date): 2005-07-03
Small Business Information
301 East Carrillo Street 2FL, P. O. Box 519
Santa Barbara, CA 93102
United States
DUNS: 053859526
HUBZone Owned: No
Woman Owned: No
Socially and Economically Disadvantaged: No
Principal Investigator
 Susan Fischer
 Principal Scientist
 (805) 966-6157
 sfischer@anacapasciences.com
Business Contact
 Steven Rogers
Title: Vice President
Phone: (805) 966-6157
Email: sprogers@anacapasciences.com
Research Institution
N/A
Abstract

The primary objective of Phase I will be to design a practical, reliable, and valid computer-based assessment of the ability to perform well in a different types of multi-tasking environments, primarily those encountered by first-term Army enlistees. Formal development and validation of the measure will then take place in Phase II. The first objective in Phase I is to conduct a literature review to extend our current model of individual difference variables that predict multi-tasking performance. The second is to analyze the defining characteristics of several multi-tasking jobs in order to create a typology of MT environments that matches environmental characteristics to requisite cognitive and non-cognitive individual difference variables. The third objective will be to design a measurement approach that taps these critical individual difference variables. The fourth objective will be to develop studies to develop and validate the measurement approach. Phase I products will include a model of individual difference variables that predict multi-tasking ability; a model of different types of multi-tasking environments and the associated skills and abilities required to perform well in those environments the test design, the Phase II study design, and an optional prototype of the test.

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