Procedures for Constructing and Using Task InventoriesThe Center for Vocational and Technical Education is developing a system for acquiring and using occupational information effectively in revising and designing curricula. The present manual provides methods, procedures, and forms to be used by a curriculum designer in acquiring useful information concerning occupational performance. To facilitate acquisition of the skills needed to develop and use task inventories, the procedures one should follow have been expressed in a series of explicit steps. This format is an effective means by which to communicate to the reader the activities he must learn to perform. As might be expected, procedures to follow in performing some steps are described in more detail than in others. This is due mainly to differences in the amount of guidance one finds in the literature. The procedures and forms for constructing task inventories and analyzing occupational performance described in this manual have·been used by The Center for collecting information in three occupational areas. The three areas were: (1) automotive mechanics, (2) business data processing, and (3) secretarial science. The success of The Center's efforts in these three occupational areas, along with the kinds and quality of data collected, has caused the project staff to judge the task inventory approach to be a more efficient and superior method for collecting occupational performance data than conventional task and job analysis techniques. |
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activities administration Analyze asked Automatic Data Processing Automatic Transmissions Automotive Mechanics Task Average background information section Center for Vocational CHECK ALL TASKS complete and return completing the inventory consultant Contact employee organizations Contact employers copy curriculum designer DATA PROCESSING develop dictaphone Draft duties and tasks duty heading Duty Statements example follow-up Garage Owners Association identify included incumbent workers Independent Garage Owners instruction interviews inventory booklets job analysis job incumbents job inventory JOB TITLE job types key punching Mail Maintaining and Repairing manager manual Mechanics Task Inventory names and addresses number of tasks occupational area occupational performance Ohio State University Personnel Research Laboratory Pilot Test PRESENT JOB questionnaire questions RATE THE TASKS respondent revisions secretarial Self-Test Items Sidney D SPEND Summary Statistics Supervising supervisory Systems task inventory analysis task inventory data task statements tasks performed Technical Education time-spent rating tion training programs U.S. Air Force Vocational and Technical