New CODAP programs for analyzing task factor information.

Concept development for future domains: A new method of knowledge elicitation

“…Typically, this is accomplished by interviewing experts and by observing as the tasks are completed. The outcome of a job-oriented task analysis is a list of tasks and subtasks such as can be found in an Army Training and Evaluation Program (ARTEP (Fine & Wiley, 1971), Comprehensive Occupational Data Analysis Program (Christal & Weissmuller, 1976), and the Task Inventory Analysis.…”

Three sets of task factor benchmark scales for training priority analysis.

“…Three papers presented at the 17th Annual Conference of the Milita ry Testing Associatirn (MTA) documented achievements up to 1976. The first of these papers (Ch ristal & Weissmuller , 1975), now also available as a technical report (Christal & Weissmuller , 1976), described eigh t new programs that were introduced into the Comprehensive Occupational Data Analysis Programs (CODAP) system to enable investigators to manipulate and analyze task factor data. The second MTA paper (Mead , 1975) reported the results of a training priority study that demonstrated the feasibility of mathematically duplicating training priority ratings in terms of a number of task factors.…”

“…Because the tasks were rated relative to each other rather than on an absolute scale , the adjustment option , discussed by Christal and Weissmuller (1976), was used to convert each rater's scores to a common mean of 5.0 and a standard deviation of 1 .0. The adjusted interrater agreements for sing le raters (R 11) and for rater groups (R kk ) are reported in Table 2.…”

A Comparison of Domain Sampling Procedures for Test Construction

“…Expert judgment data were available at the task level on these factors (Christal, 1975;Christal & Weismuller, 1976). The raw weights were summed, and then each raw weight was divided by the total of the raw weights and multiplied by 100 to give a percentage weight for each content area.…”