Technical b r Report - International Military Testing Association

TEST 1
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.\ first test is to ask experts to Jcsign job content modules. Typical
job content modules 3rc: ,
(1) Operates unit tactic31 communications equipment,
esrlluding Norse code.
(2) installs and maintajns unit tactical tcire communic3
t ion system.
,In this case, the people who arc asked to operate unit tsctiz:\l sommunications
cquipmcnt arc usually different from those kho inst:rll .ind
mairtain it. Scithcr of these work activities, hoxevcr, is ;I iull-time
posltion for :rnyonc. These are modular things rhat can be assigned to
diffcrcnt ~wzoplc.
TEST 2
A second test of duty modules is conpatibilit: uith assi$nncnt
practices in the field. Some data have already been analyzed (see ,igurc
5) . Data WI-C us;ed that were already in csistenCc, and that h;td been
collected riith task inventories that xcrc administered by the Army Office
of Personnel IQwra t i on5 . The- data IMSC is called the Xi1 i tar?’ Occupations
Dsta Cank, or >lOl~U. The original tasjr statements in !XX)B arc organized
in terms of fuwtional areas of performance (see the administration and
:raining colr~:~:ns on the right side of Figure 3). Ttrc row zorrespend to
task clusters that were identified in an cqiricnl clustering of tasks.
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Figure 3. Test 2, Compatibility with Assignment
Practices in the Field (in Percent).
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