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María Evelia Emerson – portal: Libraries and the Academy, 2025
Diversity audits are frequently used as an assessment method to measure the diversity of a library collection. Yet, there is not frequent research on the aftermath of diversity audits, especially in the context of comparing data from several audits to assess the difference in the makeup of a library collection. In this article, the author…
Descriptors: Library Materials, Library Services, Evaluation Methods, Diversity
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Fidler, James R.; Risk, Nicole M. – Educational Measurement: Issues and Practice, 2019
Credentialing examination developers rely on task (job) analyses for establishing inventories of task and knowledge areas in which competency is required for safe and successful practice in target occupations. There are many ways in which task-related information may be gathered from practitioner ratings, each with its own advantage and…
Descriptors: Job Analysis, Scaling, Licensing Examinations (Professions), Test Construction
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Wyse, Adam E.; Babcock, Ben – Practical Assessment, Research & Evaluation, 2018
Two common approaches for performing job analysis in credentialing programs are committee-based methods, which rely solely on subject matter experts' judgments, and task inventory surveys. This study evaluates how well subject matter experts' perceptions coincide with task inventory survey results for three credentialing programs. Results suggest…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Expertise, Attitudes, Job Analysis
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Lee, Yuko Ikegami; Metcalfe, Amy Scott – Journal of International Students, 2017
In this comparative content analysis, job postings for academic advising personnel from U.S. and Canadian higher education institutions were examined to ascertain expectations for job candidates in terms of skills and duties, educational requirements, and compensation. Fifty-three job descriptions from 18 research-intensive, public universities…
Descriptors: Academic Advising, Ethics, Global Approach, Comparative Analysis
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Auger, Giselle A.; Cho, Moonhee – Journalism and Mass Communication Educator, 2016
According to scholars, there has been a move toward a more professional or occupational focus in postsecondary education, a focus that Grubb and Lazerson suggest "undermines education's moral, civic, and intellectual purposes." The purpose of this study was to evaluate the public relations curricula of U.S. universities and colleges and…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Public Relations, Curriculum Research, Admission Criteria
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Wang, Ning; Stahl, John – International Journal of Testing, 2012
This article discusses the use of the Many-Facets Rasch Model, via the FACETS computer program (Linacre, 2006a), to scale job/practice analysis survey data as well as to combine multiple rating scales into single composite weights representing the tasks' relative importance. Results from the Many-Facets Rasch Model are compared with those…
Descriptors: Job Analysis, Surveys, Rating Scales, Scaling
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Conley, Sharon; Gould, Jewell; Levine, Harriet – Journal of Educational Administration, 2010
Purpose: Despite the critical role of support personnel in education, the literature about their supervision has been less than informative. In an effort to provide additional guidance to school leaders seeking to improve the supervision of such personnel, the purpose of this paper is to examine and compare three distinct groups of support…
Descriptors: Paraprofessional School Personnel, Supervision, Special Education, Individual Characteristics
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Sugar, William; Hoard, Brent; Brown, Abbie; Daniels, Lee – Journal of Educational Technology Systems, 2012
In an effort to document necessary multimedia production competencies of Instructional Design and Technology graduates, a recent analysis of over 7 months' worth of Instructional Design and Technology job advertisements (n = 615) were conducted. Specific job skills from these postings were categorized and analyzed. The data set includes three job…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Instructional Design, Job Skills, Competence
Powell, Jozan M. – ProQuest LLC, 2013
School impact media studies indicate that a well-staffed and funded school library media program with a certified school library media specialist (SLMS) positively correlates with increased student achievement. SLMS must have a shared understanding of their roles and responsibilities to positively impact student success. In an effort to determine…
Descriptors: School Libraries, Media Specialists, Librarian Attitudes, Certification
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Wise, Sharyn; Henninger, Maureen; Kennan, Mary Anne – Australian Academic & Research Libraries, 2011
The study reported in this paper is part of a larger program of studies designed to review and renew the curricula of Library and Information Science (LIS) and the broader Information Management (IM) courses. This paper analysed job advertisements as readily accessible indicators of the knowledge, skills, and competencies required of IPs by…
Descriptors: Information Science Education, Information Management, Information Systems, Information Science
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Berns, Robert G.; Klopping, Inge M. – Delta Pi Epsilon Journal, 1992
In a comparison of the application of the DACUM (Developing a Curriculum) model and the OCAP (Ohio Competency Analysis Profiles) model to entrepreneurship by a panel of experts, the DACUM approach identified 63 more competencies. One reason may be that the OCAP panel was given a predetermined list of competencies from which to work. (SK)
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Competence, Entrepreneurship, Job Analysis
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Clifford, James P. – Public Personnel Management, 1996
The Position Classification Questionnaire (PCQ) and task inventory method (TI) were used to study the same work functions. PCQ divided functions into 16 classes for wage/salary determination. TI divided them into 28 classifications for training purposes. The two approaches were considerably different in their approach to how work should be…
Descriptors: Classification, Comparative Analysis, Job Analysis, Personnel Management
Potter, Penny F.; Graham-Moore, Brian E. – 1984
Most organizations planning to assess adverse impact or perform a stock analysis for affirmative action planning must correctly classify their jobs into appropriate occupational categories. Two methods of job classification were assessed in a combination archival and field study. Classification results from expert judgment of functional job…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Data Analysis, Equal Opportunities (Jobs), Job Analysis
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Zytowski, Donald G.; Hay, Robert – Journal of Vocational Behavior, 1984
Analyzed samples of women (N=80) from five different occupations for degree of interest homogeneity. Results indicated that there may be important differences within occupations and that the similarities may be trivial and overused in occupational interest inventories. (LLL)
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Females, Interest Inventories, Job Analysis
Harbour, Jerry L. – Performance and Instruction, 1993
Discussion of performance improvement focuses on work processes. Highlights include a definition of process; types of process steps, including operational and nonoperational; desired process characteristics, including high reliability and low variability; a comparison of two different processes; and suggestions for process improvement, including…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Flow Charts, Job Analysis, Performance Factors
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