Traditional Analysis

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If I were going to teach this task to someone, what do they need

to know in order to perform this task?

What would a developer need to include in the training material

on this task to ensure that a trainee will be trained to perform the

task safely and according to established standards?

What do you wish you had been taught about the task when you

were first trained?

Should the worker be trained in any of the following areas:

Administrative knowledge

Theory requirements

Interactions with other equipment or systems

Interactions with other personnel

Safety considerations

Etc.

Write the content on a flipchart. When the SMEs feel they have

exhausted all content possibilities, tape the task statement or

statements to the content page for the developer's later use.

Proceed with each prioritized task until content has been determined

for all tasks. Encourage the SMEs to continue to think about

possible content areas for tasks even though they may feel they have

exhausted all content possibilities. Additional content can be added

throughout the process.

c. Traditional Analysis. Occasionally, traditional analysis methods for

determining content must be employed. Traditional analysis methods

should be used when the SMEs are very unfamiliar with the task, and do

not have a good procedure written for it.

Again, most of the questions, processes, and guidelines that applied

to document analysis and brainstorming apply to traditional analysis

as well. However, when using traditional analysis, you will want to

break the task down into its elements, and the elements into the

knowledge, skills, and abilities (KSAs) needed to perform the

elements. As with the other methods, simply take the task or task

groupings one at a time in the order in which they have been

prioritized. Place them before the SMEs and ask them many of the

same questions that were asked for document analysis such as:

What do you do first? second? etc.

For what tools\equipment does an incumbent need training?

What knowledge does an incumbent need to perform this task?