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The next element of content is to rank-order
doing
tasks.
this is
A
to
simple
determine
scheme
what
for
the importance of each
each
task
task
is, how frequently
m-ust be perromed, and how difficult each task is to learn.
Fcr importance you might employ a simple scale like:
1 most important, critical
2 . moderately important
3 -marginal or imimportant
For frequency of importance you might use tarminology like:
1 --Daily, or more often
2 Several times a week
3 - Weekly
4 -Monthly
5 =Occasionally
6 : Seldom
Difficulty of learning could be described as:
0 Impossible
1 Extremely difficult
2 rDifficult
3 -Moderately difficult
4 :Easy
When you have ranked the tasks in terms of these three criteria, it should
be relatively sim-le to rank-order them in order of total importance to training.
C. TECIMIQUE--the steps in conducting a task analysis are.
1. Preparing an outline (job description);
2. Identifying a source or sources;
3. Conducting an interview or - - ..
4. Organizing the data;
'5. Valadating the data;
to discuss individually:
1. Preparing an outline--using your information about the job.
area and categorizing it in terms of:
TECH-2ICAL LANGUAGE CROS SCb-L TUPE
Cognitive Cognitive Cognitive
Affective Affective Affective
Psychomotor Psychomotor Psychomotor
prepare an outline, along the lines of a sA eletal Job description.
This outline will indicate the areas in whkch you must identify
the taskg whi: comprise each aspect of the Job.
2. Indebtifying a source or sources--essentially there are three.
types of sources:a)
Someone doing the actual job:
b) Someone who knows about the,job, i.e. supervisor;
c) Yourself.
The best possible source is someone who is actually doing the job.
He knows better than anyone else what he acttially does.