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Heneman, Robert L. – Public Personnel Management, 2003
Describes advantages and disadvantages of work evaluation methods: ranking, market pricing, banding, classification, single-factor, competency, point-factor, and factor comparison. Compares work evaluation perspectives: traditional, realist, market advocate, strategist, organizational development, social reality, contingency theory, competency,…
Descriptors: Classification, Competence, Evaluation Methods, Job Analysis

Adler, Israel; Kraus, Vered – Work and Occupations: An International Sociological Journal, 1985
This article addresses perceptual aspects of occupational prestige evaluations. The data presented are based on the evaluation of a set of occupational categories on six dimensions: power and influence, value to society, standard of living, initiative and autonomy, skills and knowledge, and social standing. (Author/CT)
Descriptors: Evaluation Methods, Influences, Job Analysis, Job Skills
McHugh, Paul – 1972
Mobilization for Youth (MFY) found that videotape had several advantages and uses in a manpower training program. These uses included skills training, interview training, instruction in safety practices, orientation to handling of costly materials, and job analysis. Administrators used it for training employees, for recording consultants' advice,…
Descriptors: Communications, Evaluation Methods, Interviews, Job Analysis

Eschenmann, K. Kurt – Journal of Studies in Technical Careers, 1986
This article describes a technique being used by teachers that can be accomplished without extensive training. The final product identifies employment skills required by local employers and the existence of realistic related areas of employment. (Author/CH)
Descriptors: Employment Qualifications, Entry Workers, Evaluation Methods, Job Analysis

Hughes, Garry L.; Prien, Erich P. – Personnel Psychology, 1989
The relationship between job skills and specific tasks is difficult to analyze, since any one task may require multiple skills. In this study, a sequence of statistical evaluations was conducted to examine the reliability of a subject matter expert panel's association of tasks and job skills and the factor structure of the task by job skill…
Descriptors: Evaluation Methods, Factor Analysis, Factor Structure, Interrater Reliability

Pottinger, Paul S. – Social Policy, 1977
Discusses the need for developing job competency tests which measure cognitive and personal traits, as well as specific skills and knowledge. Emphasizes that the use of rigorously validated measures of intellectual and personal traits facilitates the evaluation of post-secondary education's effectiveness in the post-academic world. (Author/GC)
Descriptors: Cognitive Ability, Educational Assessment, Evaluation Methods, Interpersonal Competence
Lau, Ron – 1996
While senior administrators in all educational institutions have highly complex positions and are very expensive to train and replace, human resources departments have always been challenged to find competent administrators that fit well into the organization. Four main variables in the selection process are: the organization's self-awareness of…
Descriptors: Administrator Qualifications, Administrator Selection, Assessment Centers (Personnel), Employment Interviews
McCray, Paul M. – 1982
The document presents a vocational evaluation process based on a diverse mixture of proven principles and practices that have been used in school-based vocational evaluation programs for handicapped students. Following a foreword (part 1), part 2 offers several definitions of vocational evaluation and vocational assessment. Part 3 compares…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation Methods, Job Analysis

1995
These five papers are from a symposium that was facilitated by Darlene Russ-Eft at the 1995 conference of the Academy of Human Resource Development (HRD). "The Setting of Goals for Skill Acquisition" (Howard J. Klein, Peg Thoms) reports a study of hospital managers that found that goal manipulation did not lead to significant main…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Evaluation Methods, Goal Orientation, Job Analysis
Barker, Kathryn – 1998
This document outlines the processes and outcomes of a research project conducted to review work skills analysis tools (products and/or services) that profile required job skills and/or assess individuals' acquired skills. The document begins with a brief literature review and discussion of pertinent terminology. Presented next is a list of…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Employment Qualifications, Evaluation Criteria, Evaluation Methods
Reynolds, Anne – 1993
The job analysis study described in this report was conducted to serve as one of the bases for documenting the content validity of the Praxis II Subject Assessment in German. The purpose was to describe the most important knowledge and skills domains needed by newly licensed (certified) German teachers in order to perform their jobs in a competent…
Descriptors: Beginning Teachers, Evaluation Methods, German, Job Analysis
Flaugher, Ronald L.; And Others – 1969
A total of 168 Negro and 296 white Medical Technicians participated in this study. A nine-scale performance rating form was developed and administered. Every technician was rated by at least two supervisors. A test of job knowledge was also given to all subjects. Among the correlations found were: (1) Negro workers received distinctly higher…
Descriptors: Black Employment, Blacks, Employment, Evaluation Methods
Kentucky State Council on Higher Education, Frankfort. – 1982
A methodology was developed for the systematic analysis of the nursing profession, as part of the Kentucky Nursing Education Project's Nursing Delineation Study. The methodology defined and ranked nursing tasks according to the degree of complexity in order to promote articulation in nursing practice and education and to better utilize the…
Descriptors: Difficulty Level, Education Work Relationship, Educational Objectives, Employment Qualifications
Siegel, Arthur I.; And Others – 1973
Research explored methods of providing a coherent framework for the Instructional Systems Development (ISD) model which would promote better system evaluation, internal communications and student testing. Lists of critical tasks for two Air Force specialties were compiled and multidimensional scaling and hierarchical cluster analysis employed to…
Descriptors: Cluster Analysis, Educational Research, Evaluation Methods, Instructional Design
Rumberger, Russell W. – 1988
One possible reason for ambiguous findings regarding changes in work skills is the way work skills are defined and measured. Five conceptual bases for defining work skills are illustrated in the research literature: abilities of individuals, behavior requirements of jobs, ability requirements of jobs, behaviors exhibited at work, and abilities…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Change, Educational Research, Employment Qualifications
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