The preparation of a job profile is a necessary prerequisite for the design of curriculum in postsecondary vocational courses. A complete job profile has the following four components: environmental and organizational orientation to the job, essential knowledge, essential skills, and desirable personal qualities. (Author/BP)

This handbook provides guidelines for instructors to follow in developing test items for occupational task lists. It begins with directions for task analysis: identifying major performance steps of a task, identifying supporting knowledge for each performance step, identifying supporting performance skills for each performance step, identifying…

Strategies are presented for the following classes of training objectives: recall of knowledge, use of verbal information, rule learning and use, decision making, detecting, classifying, identifying symbols, voice communication, recall of procedures and positioning, steering and guiding, continuous movement, and performance of gross motor skills.…

Traditional methods for task analysis have been largely based on the Instructional Systems Development (ISD) model, which is widely used throughout industry and the military. The first part of this document gives an overview of cognitive task analysis, which is conducted within the first phase of ISD. The following steps of cognitive task analysis…

Part of a system by which local education agency (LEA) personnel may evaluate secondary and postsecondary vocational education programs, this sixth of eight components focuses on the evaluation of students' occupational competence based on the identification of job tasks. The component makes use of existing Vocational-Technical Education…

Ten modules which present specific instructions for conducting a task survey are provided in this manual for vocational educators, supervisors, and directors. Each module contains a short descriptive paragraph of the contents of each module, a performance objective, readings, exercise activities, and feedback for those activities. The modules are…

This volume contains the initial draft of a model for assessing students in vocational education programs in Georgia. Addressed in the first section of the draft are some of the components that are believed to be critical in the development of a model for assessing vocational student achievement, including selecting a program for use in developing…

This document, the fourth volume in a series, details a process for linking vocational education and training (VET) standards and employment requirements that was developed in the United Kingdom and based on functional analysis. The introductory sections describe the other three manuals in the series and the process used to develop this manual.…