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ITAB IT Aptitude Battery

© CogniMetrics Inc., 2009

ITAB and New Nursing Technologies

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ITAB: IT Aptitude Battery• What is the ITAB?• Modern Work Environments• Cognitive Abilities at Work• Traditional Work Environment• 21st Century Work Environment• What is “procedural skill”?

ITAB: tests• What does the ITAB measure?• How does the ITAB measure Gf/PSL aptitude?• ITAB 1: Hidden Target Test• ITAB 2: Battery Test• Computer game-like tests• Innovative features• ITAB: Test Data• ITAB: Test Report

ITAB: Information• ITAB: technical information

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The ITAB is the world’s first battery of fully interactive tests of human intelligence.

A product of:CogniMetrics Inc. San Antonio, TX

What is the ITAB?



Information Technology (I.T.) has gradually, but radically, reshaped the environment in which we work, communicate, and do business. These changes put new demands on workers.

In a modern work environment our workers need to be able to interact efficiently with systems that have a dynamic of their own, such as IT systems.

Modern Work Environments



ITAB tests

intelligence

Cognitive Abilities at Work

• intelligence is the strongest predictor of work performance

• developments in the work environment have changed the nature of intelligence that is required


ITAB tests

crystallized intelligence (Gc)

knowing(facts, rules, skills)

Traditional Work Environment


ITAB tests

crystallized intelligence fluid intelligence (Gf)

21st Century Work Environment

knowing(facts, rules, skills)

problemsolving

informationprocessing

procedurallearning


New nursing technologies require nursing staff to be able to operate a great variety of technical systems. The cognitive skill required for using such systems is called procedural knowledge, or procedural skill.

Traditional tests of intelligence were not designed to measure aptitude for procedural skill learning.

ITAB and New Nursing Technologies


http://www.nursezone.com/Recent-Graduates/recent-graduates-featured-articles/A-Look-at-New-Nursing-Technologies-and-Trends_20066.aspx

The new interactive tools vary in complexity from MS Office software tools (MS Word, MS Excel, MS PowerPoint), to heart-monitoring systems in hospitals, to complex information systems monitoring industrial processes.

The cognitive skill required for using such devices is called procedural knowledge, or procedural skill.

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What is “procedural skill”?

ITAB procedural skills


IT related procedural skills in nursing range from accessing patient records, X-rays, medication information systems for operation, (often) while on the bed side, to monitoring the cardiac and pulmonary system and updating the patient records and to obtaining a second opinion from another health care professional through a wireless network.

Cognition research in the nineties has deepened our insight into how procedural skills are learned.

Examples of “procedural skill”

ITAB procedural skills


ITAB tests

The ITAB tests measure how easily someone can learn new procedural skills -- procedural skill learning aptitude.

Procedural skill learning (PSL) aptitude is a manifestation of fluid intelligence (Gf).

What does the ITAB measure?


How do ITAB tests measure Gf / PSL aptitude?

The tests provide an interactive task environment in which the individual has to achieve a goal. The tests measure:

• how feedback is incorporated into follow-up actions

• how quickly this leads to a more or less efficient procedure

ITAB tests


ITAB tests

ITAB 1: Hidden Target Test

Task: The Interface of the Hidden Target test generates a two-dimensional search space consisting of a rectangular grid of equally spaced horizontal and vertical lines.

The subject is required to determine where a target is located in as few steps as possible. The subject can move a cursor across the two-dimensional space from junction to junction using a set of arrow keys. To indicate his or her first guess the subject clicks at the <TEST> key. The feedback of the task-environment indic-ates the distance between the tested location and the location of the hidden target in City Block metric..

<START> bar

<MOVE> <TEST> keys

HELP menu


Task: the test requires the individual to test whether the presented batteries work. Each new trial starts with a set of nine batteries to be tested. The battery tester is designed such that batteries have to be tested in pairs. The goal of the task is to identify the defective batteries in as few steps as possible. Each set of nine batteries contains two defective batteries.

HELP MENU

<REJECT> button<TEST> button

<START> button

Feedback window


ITAB tests

ITAB 2: Battery Test

The feel of a computer game

Combining a game-like character and an intuitive interface gives ITAB tests an advantage in testing populations that have developed an aversion against school math and the static logic of traditional intelligence tests.

ITAB tests


Innovative features

1. ITAB tests provide an interactive task environment.2. Actions of individuals are not scored as singleton answers to

distinct problems, but analyzed as sequence patterns.======3. The test report is organized according to an empirically tested

structural equations model.

ITAB tests


ITAB: TEST DATA

Each ITAB test provides an interactive task-environment. An examinee action (user action) changes the environment (system action) and the examinee receives feedback about the new state of the task-environment (system output).

The diagnostic components of the ITAB tests measure these changes per user step and analyzes:

• sequential aspects of the user actions

• The informational content of each new system state

ITAB tests


ITAB: TEST REPORT

The diagnostic components of the ITAB tests organize the many measurements into three scores that are intuitively accessible: WORK STYLE, INTELLIGENCE, and PSL Aptitude (shortly: ITAB score).

The individual test reports provide these scores for prediction purposes as well as diagnosis of test performance that may help understanding and improving it.

ITAB diagnostic components



workstyle

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intel-ligence

ITAB test scores

ITAB: TEST REPORT


workstyle

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intel-ligence

ITAB test scores

ITAB: TEST REPORT

WORK STYLE and INTELLIGENCEare causative factors of the PSLaptitude (ITAB score)


solutionsteps e10

responsetime e11

ITAB test scores

workstyle

itab

intel-ligence

ITAB: TEST REPORT

The ITAB score is based on theindividual’s interactions with the task environment.


ITAB test scores

solutionsteps e10

responsetime e11

workstyle

itab

intel-ligence

ITAB: TEST REPORT

The WORK STYLE and INTELLIGENCEscores are based on further analysis of these interactions.


solutionsteps e10

responsetime e11

ITAB test scores

workstyle

itab

intel-ligence

ITAB: TEST REPORT

solutionsteps e10

responsetime e11

Uncertainty 02e2

Uncertainty 01e1

Prob. SuccessAt Step 6e3

Working MemoryErrorse8

PartitioningErrorse7

Information Transfer (5)e6

Quality ProblemModele5

Strategy Usee4


ITAB battery test

workstyle

itab (b)

intel-ligence

ITAB: TEST REPORT

ITAB hidden target test

Consistency 2e2

Consistency 1e1

Guessinge3

FeedbackIntegration 2e8


InformationTransfer 2e6


ProblemSolvinge4

workstyle

itab(h)

intel-ligence

solutionsteps e10

response

time e11


ITAB: TEST REPORT


workstyle

itab(h)

intel-ligence

solutionsteps e10

responsetime e11

UNCERT_02e2

UNCERT_01e1

PSUC06e3

WM ERRORe8

PART. ERR.e7

INF. GAIN (5)e6

INF. ACCURe5

HTSTRATse4 ProceduralLearning AptitudeScore

prediction score

Procedural SkillLearning Aptitude

(fluid Intelligence)


workstyle

pka(h)

intel-ligence

solutionsteps e10

response

time e11

consistency 2e2

consistency 1e1

guessinge3


Feedback

Integration 1e7


Information

Transfer 1e5

problemsolvinge4

diagnosticscores


consistent and careful work style

efficiency of information processing


workstyle

itab(h)

intel-ligence

solutionsteps e10

response

time e11

workstyle

itab(b)

intel-ligence

solutionsteps e10

response

time e11

ITAB structural identity


ITAB: TEST REPORT

workstyle

itab(h)

intel-ligence

solutionsteps e10

response

time e11

workstyle

itab

intel-ligence

solutionsteps e10

response

time e11

ITAB structural identity


ITAB: TEST REPORT

ITAB test report

Abilities National Percentile Ranks

ITAB score

intelligence

work style

5025 75


ITAB: TEST REPORT

Measurement claim: procedural skill learning(aspect of fluid intelligence)

Number of tests: 2 (HTT and BT)Administration time: 10 minutes per test (average)Languages: English, Spanish, German,

DutchTest Publisher: CogniMetrics Inc.Published: March 2004

Price: see: www.cognimetrics.com bulk discounts negotiable

Reliabilities: HTT (0.87 – 0.96)BT (0.85 – 0.92)ITAB (0.87 – 0.94)

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Research Reports will be send on request

ITAB information

ITAB: Technical Information


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For further information,Please contact:

Dr. Martin J. Ippel

(210) 481 – [email protected]


Interactive Task Environment:

Complete interactivity is achieved by creating an internal representation of the task-environment.

Artificial Intelligence technology is used to compute the “intelligence” of each step.

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Analysis of behavior sequences

Unlike traditional tests, ITAB tests do not consists of items with a standard set of responses. The individual is free to act within the task-environment. The individual must produce a sequence of actions to achieve a goal, while using the feedback provided by the task-environment. Performance assessment is based on analysis of these action sequences.

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