A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF AIR TRAFFIC TRAINEE APTITUDE-TEST MEASURES INVOLVING NAVY, MARINE CORPS AND FAA CONTROLLERS,

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. (Author)

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 01, 1968
Accession Number
AD0686669

Entities

People

  • Bart B. Cobb

Organizations

  • Civil Aeromedical Institute

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Traffic
  • Air Traffic Controllers
  • Classification
  • Composite Materials
  • Marine Corps
  • Psychological Tests
  • Students
  • Traffic
  • Trainees
  • Training

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  • Psychometric Testing or Psychological Assessment.