The concurrent validity of learning potential and psychomotor ability measures for the selection of haul truck operators in an open-pit mine

• Main Author: Pelser, Marikie Karen
• Other Authors: Bergh, Z.C.
• Format: Others
• Language: en
• Published: 2009
• Subjects: Haul truck operators; Open-pit mines; selection measures; Concurrent Validity; Learning Potential; Psychomotor Ability; 150.287024622; South Africa. > Employment Equity Act. > 1998; Learning ability > Testing; Psychological tests; Psychometrics; Motor ability > Testing; Miners > Psychological tests; Truck driving > Testing; Vienna Test System
• Online Access: Pelser, Marikie Karen (2009) The concurrent validity of learning potential and psychomotor ability measures for the selection of haul truck operators in an open-pit mine, University of South Africa, Pretoria, <http://hdl.handle.net/10500/1522>; http://hdl.handle.net/10500/1522

The purpose of the present study was to determine the concurrent validity of learning potential and psychomotor ability measures for the prediction of haul truck operator (N=128) performance in an open-pit mine. Specific aims were to determine the nature of the relationship between learning potential and psychomotor ability; whether there are higher order cognitive or psychomotor factors present in the combined use of the TRAM 1 and Vienna Test System measures; and the relative contribution of learning potential and psychomotor ability in the prediction of haul truck operator performance. The validity of learning potential and psychomotor ability measures was partially supported. A positive correlation between general (cognitive) ability (g) and psychomotor ability was reported. Factor analysis provided relatively consistent evidence for a general (cognitive) ability factor (g) underlying performance on all measures. The relative contribution of learning potential and psychomotor ability in the prediction of performance could not be established. === Industrial and Organisational Psychology === M. Com. (Industrial and Organisational Psychology)