| Title | A comparative study of air traffic trainee aptitude-test measures involving Navy, Marine Corps and FAA controllers. |
|---|---|
| Record ID | 39027 |
| Personal Name Creator |
Cobb, Bart B. |
| Corporate Creator | United States. Office of Aviation Medicine |
| Publisher | Civil Aerospace Medical Institute |
| Publication Date | 19680900 |
| Language | English |
| Abstract | The study concerns the experimental use of several commercially-published aptitude tests and a determination of their validity as predictors of training-performance grades for more than 300 Marines and over 600 Naval students who entered a basic air-traffic-controller (ATC) training course. The results indicated that a composite score involving only four of the tests could be used to effectively predict performance grade and pas-fail status for the training course. The Marines were found to have been selected from relatively higher military-screening-and-classification (MSC) test score ranges than the Naval trainees and their training-course failure rate was lower. |
| Rosap ID | dot:20853 |
| Rosap URL | https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/20853 |
| TRT Terms | Air traffic controllers; Selection and appointment; Aptitude tests; Abilities; Motor skills; Knowledge; Education; Medical examinations and tests; Navy personnel; Validity; Standard deviation; Correlation analysis; Statistical analysis; Alternatives analysis; Performance; Age; Human subject testing |
| General Subjects | Air traffic controllers; Ranking and selection (Statistics); Ability--Testing; Motor ability; Experience; Education; Medical screening; United States. Navy--Air controlmen; United States. Marine Corps; Statistics; Standard deviations; Correlation (Statistics); Paired comparisons (Statistics); Performance; Age |
| Classification | NTL - AVIATION - AVIATION; NTL - AVIATION - Air Traffic Control; NTL - AVIATION - Aviation Human Factors |
| Geographical Coverage |
United States |
| Report Number | AM 68-14; DOT/FAA/AM-68/14 |
| Resource type | Tech Report |
| URL | https://ntlrepository.blob.core.windows.net/lib/39000/39000/39027/AM68-14.pdf |
| Format | |
| Database | NTL Digital Repository |