Our Institute carried out a job analysis research project from 1998 to 2002 and developed a guidebook for job analysis. We analyzed 65 kinds of vocations and distributed the results to vocational education and training organizations.
Thus, this project, as a continuation of "Job Analysis for developing Vocational Education & Training Program" executed from 1998, is aimed at complementing a guidebook for job analysis developed in 2002 to improve its usage in the areas of education, training and qualification, and at making and distributing basic data to develop curriculum for vocational education, standards for vocational training, and guidelines for making questions in qualification examination for 10 kinds of vocations through job analysis, which were precedently selected, for the purpose, out of environment industry-related vocations drawn from carried out together with this project by our Institute this year. The project contents and results suggested through this project are as following.
2. Project Contents
The contents of this project are first, to analyze what have precedently been done for job analysis, second, to complement a guidebook for job analysis, third, to select vocations for which job analysis will be made, and fourth, to carry out job analysis for developing curriculum for vocational education and training and guidelines for making questions and to distribute comprehensive data made on a basis of the results.
Project methods for the purpose of this project are an analysis on literatures and data related to job analysis, questionnaire surveys and interviews at home and abroad for figuring out status on the usage of job analysis data developed in 2002, experts councils for complementing job analysis, selecting target vocations and conducting job analysis by the vocations, and job analysis applying DACUM method.
In the first place, this report presents job analysis models by procedures for developing curriculum for vocational education and training. The first step is preparation for job analysis(data research, interviews and selection of experts), the second step the establishment of job models(first expert council and site study), the third step the drawn-out of knowledge, skills, and tools(the second expert council and site study), the fourth step the selection of courses and subjects(the third expert council), the fifth step the specification of education and training contents(the fourth expert council), and the sixth the establishment of guidelines for making questions(the fifth expert council and the third site study). In this project, job analysis for 10 vocations were conducted in accordance with these procedures.
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