PASSING SCORES FOR THE FAA ATCS COLOR VISION TEST

In response to recommendations from the Office of Personnel Management for measures of normal color vision that reflect as closely as possible the functional color vision requirements for an air traffic controller, subtests which simulated air traffic control tasks were developed in three content areas: (1) aircraft colors for fuselage and lights, (2) color weather radar displays, and (3) navigational chart terrain elevations. Previous research performed an item analysis on these subtests using data obtained from 41 persons with normal color vision as determined by their performance on the Pseudoisochromatic Plates Test (PIP) from the American Optical Corporation and 22 persons with defective color vision according to the PIP. The item parameters and the internal consistency reliability estimates obtained were satisfactory; however, minimum passing scores were not established. The purpose of this research is to determine a minimum passing score for each of these tests and for a simple composite of all three.

• Record URL:
  http://www.faa.gov/data_research/research/med_humanfacs/oamtechreports/1980s/media/am85-07.pdf
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• Corporate Authors:

  Federal Aviation Administration

  Office of Aerospace Medicine, 800 Independence Avenue, SW
  Washington, DC  United States  20591
• Authors:
  • Convey, J J
• Publication Date: 1985

Language

• English

Media Info

• Features: References; Tables;
• Pagination: 18 p.

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Air traffic controllers; Aircraft; Color vision; Fuselages; Human subject testing; Lighting; Navigation charts; Radar displays; Simulation; Vision tests
• Identifier Terms: U.S. Federal Aviation Administration
• Subject Areas: Aviation; Operations and Traffic Management; Safety and Human Factors; Vehicles and Equipment;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00960838
• Record Type: Publication
• Report/Paper Numbers: DOT/FAA/AM-85/7
• Files: TRIS, USDOT
• Created Date: Aug 1 2003 12:00AM