Method Development for Basic Technical Skills Research, a Progress Report

摘要

Research is being conducted to develop a method for determining technical skills required for current and future weapons and support systems. It is to serve as a basis for the Navy enlisted personnel classification structure required in the next decade. The application of a multi-dimensional approach to occupational analysis was explored. This method involves the analysis of task patterns in terms of the Technical, Organizational, and Communicational dimensions of the work situation. The acronym SAMOA (Systematic Approach to Multidimensional Occupational Analysis) has been adopted as a label for this method. An iterative computer clustering program was devised to group similar task patterns into homogeneous occupational segments. A method of determining skill levels with high reliability was developed to classify tasks into a hierarchy of difficulty and complexity. (Author)