FURTHER VALIDATION OF THE PRACTICAL COLOR VISION TEST FOR EN ROUTE AIR TRAFFIC CONTROL APPLICANTS

The Flight Progress Strips Test (FPST) is currently used for secondary color vision screening of applicants for air traffic control jobs at en route centers. The test provides a practical, job-specific color vision selection criterion involving use of color coding in the most important color task of en route radar controllers, i.e., discrimination of the non-redundant color coding in flight progress strips (FPSs). This experiment provides a further, independent validation of the FPST using a new criterion test. Prediction by the FPST of performance on the new and old criterion tests was compared. The predictive validity of the FPST was shown to be acceptably high in this further validation with a new, independent set of actual flight progress as the criterion test.

• Corporate Authors:

  Civil Aeromedical Institute

  Office of Aviation Medicine, 6500 South MacArthur Blvd
  Oklahoma City, OK  United States  73128
• Authors:
  • Mertens, H W
  • Milburn, N J
  • Collins, W E
• Publication Date: 1996-8

Language

• English

Media Info

• Pagination: 12 p.

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Air traffic controllers; Color vision; Vision tests
• Old TRIS Terms: Flight progress strips test; Test validation
• Subject Areas: Aviation; Operations and Traffic Management;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00736480
• Record Type: Publication
• Report/Paper Numbers: DOT-FAA-AM-96-22
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: May 13 1997 12:00AM