Frankfurt attention inventory

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The Frankfurt Attention Inventory (FAIR) is a psychological test to assess the ability to pay attention and concentrate ( attention and concentration test).

Test target

The FAIR tests the ability to focus attention. This means the ability to quickly recognize certain, similar information (symbols), to correctly distinguish them and to hide insignificant information (external interference).

Construction and process

Frankfurt discrimination items. Top line: items type A, bottom line: items type B

The FAIR is a painting test in which certain symbols must be recognized in a series of similar, round symbols (items) and marked (with a pen) ( paper-pencil method ) within a specified time . FAIR takes into account the principle of complete marking, i.e. This means that symbols that do not belong to the ones searched for are also marked. This avoids the problem of other test methods that it cannot be decided for unmarked symbols whether they were deliberately not marked or merely ignored or overlooked; this distinction is important for the assessment of attention performance.

To mark the correct and incorrect symbols, which are distributed in lines across the test sheet, a continuous line is drawn under each line of symbols and under all symbols in this line. The line should run straight past the wrong symbols and make a point into the symbol when the right symbols are used, so that the point of the point hits roughly the middle of the (round) symbol. The fact that the line goes past or in each symbol ensures that each symbol has been edited; the wrong symbols are marked here indirectly by not generating a point.

This task also prevents an (undesired) repeated work through of all tasks, each with a different focus on a different target object, which usually increases the number of correctly marked characters.

The test is available in two forms: Form A differentiates better among subjects who tend to perform well, and Form B better among subjects who tend to perform poorly. To put it the other way around: Form A evaluates less precisely for low-performing test persons, Form B less precisely for high-performing test persons.

Evaluation and result

The test evaluates the areas (dimensions) of performance (test value  L), quality (test value  Q) and continuity (test value  K). In addition, a test value M (marking value  ) is calculated, which gives an indication of whether the task has been correctly followed (understood).

Test values ​​one after the other:

  • L, Achievement Score - Estimates the number of symbols that were focused on.
  • Q, Quality Score - Estimates the relative proportion of all symbols that have been intensively edited.
  • K, Continuity Score - Estimates the degree of continuous concentration sustained.

To calculate these values, the total marking G and various error values ​​are measured:

  • F L , line errors - e.g. interrupted, rescheduled, or corrected line locations; indicate falsifying processing strategies (e.g. the successive processing of a symbol type in a first pass, the next in a second pass).
  • F V , mistaken identity - Incorrectly marked incorrect symbols ("false alarm"), i. H. unnecessarily set points with wrong symbols.
  • F A , omission errors - Incorrectly unmarked (omitted) correct symbols, i.e. H. missing spikes in correct symbols.
  • F Z , additional errors - other errors; are usually only recorded, not included in the evaluation.

In addition, an additional evaluation can be carried out in which further, more specific values ​​are calculated.

With the help of the associated manual, the results (L, Q, K and M values) can be converted into so-called standard values . Be included in the manual percentile rank - and Stanine norm for different age groups, they are also free to be converted into other standards.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ H. Moosbrugger , J. Oehlschlägel: Frankfurt attention inventory (FAIR) . Huber, Bern 1996.