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NAVY PERSONNEL RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT CENTER
SAN DIEGO, CALIFORNIA 92152

API has helped train numerous fighter pilots for the US Navy.

OCULOMOTOR TRAINING: PRELIMINARY RESULTS

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE — TWO-FACTOR (SUBJECTS & TREATMENTS) DESIGN, WITH REPEATED MEASURES ON SUBJECT’S PERFORMANCE

This analysis is appropriate when subjects are assigned to more than one group for purposes of receiving the treatments constituting the experimental procedure, and are tested before and after the, treatments. In this instance the 40 subjects, all VF—124 pilot students, were given a pretest on a device that measured their eye movement skills. They were then assigned to two groups on the basis of the number of flight hours each student reported, in order that the factor of experience would be approximately equal for both groups. One group, designated the experimental group, received the Athletic Perception Institute’s oculomotor training while the other, the control group, received no training. Following the training, which took place over a period of 15 days, both groups were given a posttest On their eye movement ability. The data was then analyzed, and the results are given below.

The results of the analysis showed that: (1) there were no significant differences between the two groups of subjects in their pretest scores of eye movement ability; (2) there was a significant increase in test scores between the pretest and the posttest by those subjects in the experimental group; and (3) there was a significant difference between posttest scores of subjects in the experimental group and those in the control group.

From the above analysis we can infer that the oculomotor training had a significant effect on the eye movement abilities of the trainees.