This paper describes research to develop the Job Reading Task Tests (JRTT) for three military jobs having civilian counterparts: cook, automative repairman and supply clerk. Relationships of general reading ability to performance on JRTT are described for men in three groups: an unselected sample, a group selected for special aptitude in a JRTT area, and a group both selected and trained in the JRTT area. Results indicate that, while general reading arid JRTT performance are positively correlated, the JRTT are sensitive to selection and training, and hence are measures of special reading abilities as well as of general reading abilities.
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