The concept of situational awareness was introduced to the aviation community in the late s by Dr. Stanley N. Roscoe of the University of Illinois Aviation Research Laboratory, only in those days he called it " residual attention. However, it is much more than a complex game; it is a powerful, culture-independent PC-based system for measuring situational awareness under stress.
A study by Dr. David O'Hare of the University of Otago in New Zealand and published in the Human Factors Journal provided strong evidence that the test does in fact measure " an individual's ability to maintain situational awareness and that this ability is found in high levels in elite pilots. The reverse is also true.
In both versions of the test, the joysticks are also used in a figure-rotation task that calls for imprecise control of the orientation of three-dimensional figures to allow them to be viewed from any aspect.
The psychomotor skill required is minimal. Although the WOMBAT tracking tasks do not require unusual psychomotor skill, they are primary in the sense that they must be attended to frequently to maintain a high scoring rate, and for that reason they contribute heavily to the overall score.
While there is a premium on timely responses, there is a greater premium on vigilance and giving attention to what is most important at the moment, which in turn depends on keeping an accurate mental picture of a dynamic situation. Thousands of WOMBAT scores from five continents in several languages have failed to show significant differences in mean scores for various races, geographic areas, educational or vocational levels, or training in operating specific systems such as airplanes or computers.
That's correct. WOMBAT isn't a game and will not motivate people to do more, or to have a good time, nor will it play music or game sounds. On the basis of operational experience and the results of several experiments, the answer is "no.
Typically those with little computer experience spend more time getting up to speed during the instructions phase, but once they are comfortable using the WOMBAT keypad, they have no further problem attributable to their limited computer experience.
WOMBAT measures situational awareness in a complex operational environment, but situational awareness is not the only requirement for successful careers in aviation and many other complex vocations.
Good eyes and hearts and other attributes of physical and mental fitness are also needed, as are reasonable levels of other basic qualities. However, the lack of an acceptable level of situational awareness could well be a sufficient basis for elimination of a candidate.
Beware of charlatans selling "magic solutions" or "psychological revolutions. Beware of flashy article titles and misleading abstracts.
Question the links between writers and test publishers. Question the methodology and look at the numbers. Talk to test users and see how knowledgeable they are. Beware of validation reports based on sanitized data impossible to replicate. Good tests on the market are not only used in normal operations, they are also used for scientific research in the medical, psychological, psychiatric, and industrial domains. Do your homework or get help from experts. No single test can predict with high accuracy the future operational success of complex-system operators.
Many factors in addition to SA should be involved in a selection program. Selecting personnel calls for good science. Few validation studies based on objective performance criteria in actual operations have been done. Aero Innovation advocates having an on-going in-house validation program, comparing the objective performance records of your own people with their respective test scores. We also recommend calling on independent experts in the field of psychometrics to make sure you use the best tools available, in the right order, with the correct relative weights, to maximize your predictive validity.
We will be happy to recommend specific names if you contact us. We deal with knowledgeable consultants who will sometimes recommend WOMBAT and sometimes not, depending on the special requirements of the individual operator. The success of a selection protocol depends not only on the selection system's efficiency but also on the resources invested in training admitted candidates including those who subsequently fail.
With this in mind, there are two types of errors your selection protocol will encounter. A Type 1 error happens when an inadequate candidate is admitted to training or trial employment despite your screening protocol. This candidate will be costly to train and will represent an increased risk in later operations.
Type 1 errors also called "false positives" are those you want to reduce to a minimum, and you want to find out why they happen. They are the primary target of your in-house validation program. The more frequent Type 2 error happens when a candidates who would be successful in your operation is rejected by your selection process. Although such rejections represent unfortunate mistakes, Type 2 errors also called "false negatives" are usually regarded as the price one pays to minimize Type 1 errors.
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