What is the Assessment Center method?
The Assessment Center is a method of defining, observing, and measuring behavior. The Assessment Center method uses system of actual work-related problems and situations in which the behavior of individuals can be observed and objectively assessed. The students participate these situations under the watchful eye the assessors, who are specially train for this activity and who have themselves undergone assessment. The behavior the student is recorded and later classified in accordance with specifically tailored “dimensions” or skills. These dimensions are the actual leadership skills that have been identified as essential qualities for the position being considered, or for the particular types of duties the student w be assigned in future Air Force assignments.21 The purpose of the Assessment Center, as used by most civilian corporations, is to evaluate the specific skills, or dimensions, of the candidates in order to determine their fitness for promotion to a particularly important pos
