Standardized Position Oriented Training System (SPOTS).
Abstract
This report summarizes the research and development of the Standardized Position Oriented Training System (SPOTS). Over the last several years, Air Force supervisors have voiced strong concerns about using the Specialty Training Standard or the Job Proficiency Guide as a guide for training tasks during on-the-job training (OJT). The objective of this study was to develop an automated procedure for identifying specific job tasks associated with each significant portion of an Air Force specialty, so as to recommend tasks for OJT. Although the word 'position' in SPOTS implies an individual position, the research effort used 'job' as an operational substitute for individual position, where a job was a statistical summary of the tasks performed by a group of individuals assigned to similar positions. This was necessitated by the fact that there are several hundred thousand individual positions in the Air Force; however, many of the positions are similar enough that an average job description would be suitable for them. A single regression equation was developed that could be used across jobs in four widely different specialties to predict the priority with which the tasks should be trained in OJT for a specific job. Further, this overall equation included only two terms: (a) the interaction between the percentage of members in the job performing the task and the task's difficulty and (b) the percentage of members in the job performing the task.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Dec 01, 1982
- Accession Number
- ADA123804
Entities
People
- Hendrick W. Ruck
- Louis M. Datko
- Michael J. Cassidy
- William N. Washington
Organizations
- Air Force Research Laboratory