Abstract

Situation awareness (SA), a measure of how well a person understands the situation, is frequently used to evaluate the safety and effectiveness of critical systems that depend on human behavior. While there are objective ways of measuring SA, subjective assessments, such as the SA rating technique (SART), are still widely used. However, it is not clear what the level of measurement is for SART-measured SA or its constituent dimensions This is a significant gap because the level of measurement determines what mathematics and statistics can be meaningfully used to synthesize and evaluate measures. This research uses a previously developed method for determining the level of measurement of psychometric ratings to evaluate the level of measurement of SART and its elements. Results show that all of the dimensions of SA can be treated as interval in most situations, but that each is on a separate interval scale. This result casts doubt on the validity of the formula SART uses to compute SA from its subcomponents. We ultimately discuss our results and explore future research directions.

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