Technical Report - International Military Testing Association

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Reproduction and mailing to eelected ‘X0’s
Administration of the job inventory
Responding to the job inventory
Receiving, scanning, coding, and collating
Key punching and verifying job inventory data
Electronic computer analysis of frurvey data
Distribution of survey remits
Now let us look briefly at each of these steps.
Source Materials
The source material8 used in the construction of job inventories coneist
of the specialty descriptions in Air Force Hanuals 36-l and 39-1, Job
Training Standards, On-the-Job Training Package Programs, Training Course
Outlines, Technical Orders, and any other pertinent publications. A reference
library facility is being built up which provLdes current source
materials pertaining to all airman career fields.
Construction of First Draft
An Air Force job inventory covers tasks performed by all skill levels
of one airman career ladder from spprentice, through journeyman and supervi8or,
to superintendent. Three persons work together In constructing the
first draft of the inventory. A personnel technician or job annlyst select8
duty and task statements from published source nateriale. Upon his judgment
the quality l>f the inventory largely depends. A clerk-typist prepares successive
drofte of the inventory and may derive preliminary task statements
from selected sections of publications. A supervisor editor checks forn;nt,
wording and organization of tasks statements into duty categories and coordinates
the development of related inventories. Construction time for a
job inventory varies with the complexity of the career ladder. For the less
technical ladders, three to four weeks is adequate for writing the first draft.
For the nore technically complex career ladders the period may be twice as
lows -- six to eight weeks -- OP even lor.ger.
Interview Review
Fran three to eix technical advisers who are in the appropriate career
ladder and are usually experienced senior NCO’a, are interviewed individually
or as a group to obtain their constructive critfcism of the first draft of
the inventory. These consultants are frequently the same subject matter
specialiete who arc assigned on TDY to the Personnel Research Laboratory to
build Specialty .Lowledgc Tests.
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