To Analyze The Reliability And Validity And Establish The Norm And Discriminate Standard Of The Basic Cognitive Capability Test Assessing The Fighter Pilot

Objective: To analyze the reliability and validity of the Basic Cognitive Capability Test assessing (BCCT) the Fighter Pilot, and then establish it's the standard NINE the norm. Cognitive ability is a necessary factor of mental activities including information receiving, processing, storing and extracting, and also is the essential mental traits for fighter pilots. Because there were significant differences between fighter pilots and general people such as intelligence, occupational traits, school age, habitation and so on. It was necessary that differences between the BCCT evaluating fighter pilots and general people were found. For example, what has the reliability and validity of the BCCT in fighter pilot? What has their discriminate ability? The main purposes of our study were to analysis the reliability and validity of the BCCT evaluating fighter pilots, and provide its theory and discriminate standard. Methods: Through the stratified random sampling method, 378 pilots recruited from fifteen Air Bases (AB) of China were measured by the Basic Cognitive Capability Test (Ⅱ) programmed by the Institute of Psychology Chinese Academic of Sciences.Results:①The differences in the test-retest reliability of the sub-scales reached significant (p<0.05).The Correlative coefficient of Digit Copying was 0.98(P﹤0.01), Character Comparison 0.80(P﹤0.01), Mental Arithmetic 0.81 (P﹤0.05) , Chinese Character Rotation 0.63(P﹤0.05), Digit Working Memory 0.89(P﹤0.01), Word Recognition 0.59 (P﹤0.01, Meaningless Figure Recognition 0.52(P﹤0.05).②Six factors of BCCT were found by the explored factor-analysis including Digit Copying, Word Recognition, Digit Processing, Digit working memory, Character comparison and Mental arithmetic.③Consciousness Rate of the younger age-group (20-29 yrs) significant higher than the middle age-group (30-39 yrs). However, Mental Rotation Word and Figure Memory were obviously lower.The differences in performances of other sub-scales between two age-groups did not reach significant.④T he Standard NINE adapted further to the evaluation of BBCT when assessing the Fighter Pilot.Conclusion:①The Basic Cognitive Capability Test showed the fairly high reliability and validity when it was used to assess the abilities of the Fighter Pilot.②T he Basic Cognitive Capability of Fighter Pilot increases with the age 20 -36. In contrast, it begins to decrease after age 36.③Five kinds of basic cognitive abilities of Fighter Pilot had not synchronously changed. Consciousness Rate firstly decreased. However, Mental Rotation, Word and Figure Memory increased with the age. Moreover, Mental Arithmetic and Working Memory maintain relatively steady.④When the test scores were translated into the Standard NINE, the sample data have a perfect and reasonable distribution. So the norm and the Standard NINE could be used to evaluate and select the Fighter Pilot.