Psychometrics and the U.S. Navy

This post isn’t specifically about psychometrics and the U.S. Navy’s advancement/promotion system . It’s really just to congratulate Chris on making the Chief Petty Officer (CPO, E-7) Selection Board, a board charged with considering all eligible candidates for advancement to CPO. He’s eligible for board based on his score on the Navy Advancement-in-Rate Examination and performance evaluations. Next, the CPO Selection Board will consider the following factors for promoting sailors to E-7:

Professional Performance at Sea

Education

Evaluations

Physical Standards

Test Scores

Oh, I should mention there’s also this thing called a quota; that is, there’s only so many “openings” for E-7 Yeoman advancements. Last year there was less than 9% advancement opportunity for Yeoman. We anxiously await hearing – by August – whether he’s been selected to advance.