Task Inventory Construction
Abstract
This technical report is designed to aid in the construction of effective task analysis inventories. The objectives of the research conducted here were to determine an optimum questionnaire size that would adequately cover the tasks without unduly fatiguing the Marine respondents; to develop procedures for the phrasing of task statements to avoid ambiguities and be understandable to as broad a range of Marines as is possible with a paper and pencil inventory; and to develop recommendations for inventory design and format. The result of studies of task inventory size (some Marine Corps inventories have contained as many as 1,000 items) is a recommendation that OMU experiment with a 'minibooklet' format that would substantially reduce the number of items to which an individual Marine would be required to respond. An experimental design is given for dividing a lengthy task inventory into a series of shorter inventories. There is sufficient overlap of task statements in each small questionnaire booklet to provide adequate samples of response to each item. Major attention is given to the wording of task statements and task inventory instructions. Data are presented from the application of six measures of readability to nine task inventories.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Jun 01, 1976
- Accession Number
- ADA054293
Entities
People
- Akemi Kishi
- C. H. Stone
Organizations
- California State University, Los Angeles