U.S. Air force pilot selection tests: What is measured and what is predictive?

Aviation Space and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 67, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 279-283

  Carretta, Thomas R ^a,b   Ree, Malcolm James ^a  

^a AIR FORCE RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b USAF   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR FORCE; AIRPLANE PILOT; ARTICLE; COGNITION; COMPETENCE; JOB PERFORMANCE; MILITARY SERVICE; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE;

COGNITION; HUMANS; MILITARY PERSONNEL; PERSONNEL SELECTION; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 0029979632     PISSN: 00956562     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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