The study attempted to demonstrate significant relationships between systematically derived occupational descriptors and selected measures of worker characteristics in the affective domain. The predictor variables were derived from the Occupation Analysis Inventory (OAI) and consisted of work-dimension scores describing occupations in terms of…

Marine career information is provided, intended for use by high school students, counselors, teachers, and curriculum developers. Material was gathered from a review of occupational publications, including extended use of the "Dictionary of Occupational Titles" (D.O.T.), and from interviews of persons employed in marine occupations in…

With demand for social welfare and rehabilitation services growing faster than the manpower supplying the services, agencies are finding it necessary to increase recruitment of new workers and to utilize available workers more efficiently. The papers in this publication were prepared as background information, initial working papers, and beginning…

This report is concerned with the classification, education, training, and earnings of technicians. The report seeks an operational definition of the term "technical" and examines how one classifies individuals into the technical category. Improved methods of occupational classification are sought, using the statistical technique of discriminate…

To a large extent the occupational system and the family system presuppose that in a married couple only one spouse will have a high level occupation. Typically the husband has a demanding occupational role, while the wife has either no occupational role or one that is subordinate in importance to that of her husband. One of the major ways in…

This paper describes a project designed to: (1) develop a model for determining occupational activity components to be used in any vocational-technical program, (2) produce a list of occupational activity components (tasks) for the occupational roles identified, (3) determine scores, ranks and percentages for each component from each occupational…

In its attempts to apply behavior modification principles to teaching job-required behaviors to manpower trainees, the Mobilization for Youth-Experimental Manpower Laboratory (MFY-EML), has mounted a number of reinforcement-based Neighborhood Youth Corps training programs. The nature, magnitude and scheduling of reinforcers, the nature of the…

Resulting from a project in which a curriculum for an occupational therapy program was developed through task analysis, this manual contains guidelines for developing curriculum guides using job analysis data. The development process consists of 13 procedures which are organized into these four categories: (1) Organization of a project staff, (2)…

To find the relationship between industrial and engineering technologists in order to develop an internal framework for the technologists' roles in technical occupations, this study involved 30 engineering and 100 industrial technologists. Questionnaires concerning their opinions were used to obtain data. Findings include: (1) The relationship of…

A study was made of professional qualifications for personnel employed as program evaluators and auditors. These qualifications, according to operational or theoretical models, are necessary to assure local school districts of obtaining the services of competent and ethical personnel. Findings of (1) a review of literature, (2) a national survey…

Presents results from a study of job analysis and job satisfaction data collected from 236 secretaries in Ohio to determine differences in job dimensions and job satisfaction, aptitudes for secretarial work, and correlations among three secretarial categories: traditional, administrative support, and word processing. Includes implications and…

Discusses the methodology and stages of occupational generic skills studies focusing on four occupational surveys encompassing seventy-seven trade occupations. Also, covers specifications for developing an individualized job training curriculum and cites some available generic skills tools for teachers. (EM)

Describes a procedure developed at the Red River Army Depot, Texarkana, Texas, for selecting and evaluating personnel called AKS ME (Ability, Skill and Knowledge Merit Evaluation), consisting of four basic steps: job analysis, examination plan, candidate evaluation, and validation. (MF)

The paper reviews methods of vocational assessment for handicapped secondary students and considers factors involved in job analysis. (CL)

Research on job analysis and on the application of that data to the problem of selection test construction has grown out of its infancy. However, there is insufficient evidence for the sole use of any method for the construction of a content valid test. Proposes that multiple methods of job analysis be used and specifically that a task-oriented…