The tester and decision theory -- Types of personnel decisions -- Characteristics of decision problems -- Selection decisions with single-stage testing -- Placement decisions -- Two-stage sequential selection -- Efficient testing procedures -- The bandwith-fidelity dilemma -- Classification decisions -- Evaluation of outcomes -- The importance of decision theory -- Supplement: A guide to relevant literature, 1955-63 -- The statistical evaluation of educational allocation and selection / by D.J. Finney ; discussion by T. Lewis [and others] ; reply by D.J. Finney ; comments by Lee J. Cronbach -- Classification procedures based on Bayes's formula / by Allan Birnbaum and A.E. Maxwell -- Teaching a digital computer to assist in making decisions / by Joe H. Ward, Jr., and Kathleen Davis -- Application of the decision-theoretical approach to the selection of drivers / by R.F. van Naerssen -- Interpretation of reliability and validity coefficients: remarks on a paper by Lord / by Lee J. Cronbach and Goldine C. Gleser.