A Method to Evaluate Performance Reliability of Individual Subjects in Laboratory Research Applied to Work Settings,

Abstract

This report presents a method that may be used to evaluate the reliability of performance of individual subjects, particularly in applied laboratory research. The method is based on analysis of variance of a tasks-by-subjects data matrix, with all scores standardized. If all tasks are parallel, then the average correlation among tasks is an inverse function of the within-subject variance, which may be computed for any individual subject or group of subjects. The formula for determining the relationship between within-subject variance and average correlation is developed and a method of testing the reliability of individual subjects against the general level of reliability is presented. Possible applications of the method are noted. (Author)

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Oct 01, 1978
Accession Number
ADA063731

Entities

People

  • Alan E. Jennings

Organizations

  • Federal Aviation Administration

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Accuracy
  • Air Traffic
  • Air Traffic Controllers
  • Analysis Of Variance
  • Aviation Medicine
  • Commercial Pilots
  • Data Science
  • Education
  • Errors
  • Information Science
  • Measurement
  • Motivation
  • Pilots
  • Reliability
  • Task Performance And Analysis
  • Training

Fields of Study

  • Engineering

Readers

  • Brain and Cognitive Science; Experimental Psychology; Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Regression Analysis.