ABSTRACT
This chapter is concerned with what Carroll (1992) called “the dimensional analysis of cognitive abilities,” that is, the study of the ways in which individuals differ cognitively. Over the past several years, I and other members of the Learning Abilities Measurement Program (LAMP) research team 1 have developed a framework for measuring cognitive abilities and an actual computerized test battery constructed from that framework. We have called this the Cognitive Abilities Measurement (CAM) framework and battery (Kyllonen, in press). We have administered the CAM battery in a number of different studies along with various learning tasks. Some of the learning tasks have been fairly simple, laboratory tasks lasting 30 minutes to an hour. Others have been quite complex and elaborate computerized tutorials, lasting from 10 to 30 hours and administered over several days. The domains have been primarily technical, cognitive ones—computer programming, electronics troubleshooting, electricity principles, statistics, graph reading—but have also included learning to fly an aircraft.
