Jl. Wheeler et Mj. Ree, THE ROLE OF GENERAL AND SPECIFIC PSYCHOMOTOR TRACKING ABILITY IN VALIDITY, International journal of selection and assessment, 5(2), 1997, pp. 128-136
A study of 1,099 males and females in pilot training was conducted to
investigate the relative importance of general and specific factors of
psychomotor tracking ability in the prediction of several pilot train
ing criteria. Measures of psychomotor tracking ability were derived fr
om the Basic Attributes Test (Carretta and Ree 1994). The criteria wer
e the dichotomous passing or failing pilot training and the average of
six flying work samples. Comparisons of linear models indicated that
general psychomotor tracking ability was the source of most of the val
idity and that only the specific measure of reaction time was incremen
tal. Reaction time, although part of the psychomotor taxonomy, has fre
quently been identified as a measure of cognitive ability.