Screening Aviation-Security Staff

We developed a computer based test battery tailored specifically for selecting aviation security staff. The battery includes both conventional visual perception tests (colour perception, mental rotation, visual closure and sustained focused attention), and simulation tests (basic image interpretation, object recognition-superimposition, attention to anomalies). All tests were designed on the basis of job task analysis. In a series of studies we found that simulation tests offer additional advantages over conventional tests in terms of incremental validity.