Users Manual for the Essex Automated Performance Test System (APTS). Volume 1. Users Manual. Appendices A and B.
Abstract
This manual describes the characteristics of and provides user information for the Essex Corporation computer based automated performance test system (APTS). The batter provides integrated software for a menu of 30 performance test tapping a wide variety of human cognitive and motor functions, implemented on a portable computer system suitable for use in both laboratory and field settings for studying the effects of toxic agents and other stressor conditions. From this menu, subsets of tests can be selected using a configuration program to provide a more specialized battery appropriate to the requirements of a particular application. Information on test stability, reliability and factor content is given to assist in decisions about battery composition. The APTS battery is a consolidation of two independently developed batteries. It contains those 19 of the 25 tests in the UTC-PAB (Unified Tri- Service Cognitive Performance Assessment Battery) that were suitable for implementation on a laptop portable computer intended for field use. It also contains 11 of the tests from the APTS battery developed By Essex for NASA and NSF. The APTS tests have a somewhat longer and more detailed development history, and serve to some extent as anchor or reference points for similar or equivalent PAB tests. Within the combined battery, both sets of tests are implemented through the same menu structure and can be mixed and matched as desired for a given application.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- May 16, 1988
- Accession Number
- ADA203579
Entities
People
- Norman E. Lane
- Robert S. Kennedy