A research report submitted to the Faculty of Humanities
University of the Witwatersrand
In partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Masters of Arts by
coursework and research report in Organisational Psychology
Submitted for examination March 2015 / and most efficient way possible. Air traffic controllers perform complex tasks, some of which
involve the analysis of visual inputs. The primary aim of this study was to examine whether
there is a relationship between visual analysis and performance during the first training course
attended by aspiring controllers. The main sample consisted of fifty-one trainees. An additional
twenty-five qualified controllers also completed the visual analysis exercises. Visual analysis
was assessed using ScreenX and SAMAE’s Scanning and Division of Attention exercises from
Leaderware. The Core Content course reports were used as a measure of performance for
trainees. Correlations and regressions were performed. The main results showed that the visual
analysis scores were related to performance on ten of the fifteen subjects covered during the
Core Content course and the overall course average. These findings have implications for the
selection of trainees. Secondary analyses found significant differences in the visual analysis
abilities of trainees and qualified controllers / MT2016
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:netd.ac.za/oai:union.ndltd.org:wits/oai:wiredspace.wits.ac.za:10539/21430 |
| Date | January 2016 |
| Creators | Gould, Megan |
| Source Sets | South African National ETD Portal |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Thesis |
| Format | Online resource (106 leaves), application/pdf, application/pdf |
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