Task Analytic Approach to Human Performance Battery Development

Abstract

Task analytic methods were used to isolate critical components of naval student flight performance. This goal was accomplished by utilizing factor and regression analyses to compare student maneuver errors during primary training to the overall phase grades of primary, basic and advanced. The results indicated that flight ability skills appear to be best measured by basic transitions, coordination flying and entries to dirty configurations. These items could be measured within a flight simulator. In a laboratory, these skills could best be measured by a performance battery which contained memory, problem-solving, continuous tracking tasks, and a time-sharing capability between continuous tracking and discrete tasks. In conclusion, the task analytic procedure was determined to be a feasible and useful undertaking in the development of performance measurement systems such as the PETER project.