Abilities and Skill Acquisition: A Latent Growth Curve Approach

Autor/inn/en	Voelkle, Manuel C.; Wittmann, Werner W.; Ackerman, Phillip L.
Titel	Abilities and Skill Acquisition: A Latent Growth Curve Approach
Quelle	In: Learning and Individual Differences, 16 (2006) 4, S.303-319 (17 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1041-6080
DOI	10.1016/j.lindif.2006.01.001
Schlagwörter	Experimental Psychology; Skill Development; Structural Equation Models; Ability; Relationship; Correlation; Evaluation Methods; Behavioral Science Research; Researchers + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Experimentelle Psychologie; Kompetenzentwicklung; Qualifikationsentwicklung; Fähigkeit; Fertigkeit; Wechselbeziehung; Korrelation; Researcher; Forscher
Abstract	The relationship between abilities and skill acquisition has been the subject of numerous controversies in psychology. However, while most researchers implicitly or explicitly accept the idea that abilities and skill acquisition should be related, empirical research has failed to provide evidence for a consistently strong correlation between the two constructs. Based on the reanalysis of a study on skill acquisition using the air traffic controller task TRACON [Ackerman, P. L., Kanfer, R., and Goff, M. (1995). Cognitive and Noncognitive Determinants and Consequences of Complex Skill Acquisition. Journal of Experimental Psychology. Applied, 1(4), 270-304], it will be shown how latent growth curve modeling can help to gain a better understanding of the relationship between human abilities and skill acquisition. A brief introduction into the basic concepts of latent growth curve modeling will be given, particularly with regard to the advantages for the analysis of skill acquisition and its determinants. The goal is thereby to provide evidence for a much closer association than commonly assumed and to offer a new, differential, perspective formerly obscured by traditional between-subject analyses. (Author).
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Update	2017/4/10