Using Needs Assessment to Align Learning and Assessment with the Capability Needed to Perform a Specific Mission

Abstract

This presentation, which was delivered to the Interagency Language Roundtable (ILR) Testing Committee on 21 MAR 2014, described how a rigorous needs assessment process can provide a foundation for developing mission-focused, capability-based language curricula and assessments. The purpose of a training needs assessment is to guide the design of activities to close gaps in underlying knowledge, skills, abilities or competencies related to performance deficiencies. The presenter used models of performance (i.e., Borman, 1991; Campbell, 1999) and theories of human behavior to demonstrate that performance is determined by individual and environmental factors. The presenter described how conducting a needs assessment that fits the purpose and context, can produce information at the level of detailed needed to construct language curricula and assessments.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Mar 01, 2014
Accession Number
ADA610541

Entities

People

  • Eric A. Surface

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Human Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Deficiencies
  • Foreign Languages
  • Human Behavior
  • Language
  • Learning
  • Measurement
  • Motivation
  • New York
  • Psychology
  • Special Forces
  • Special Operations Forces
  • Standards
  • Tactical Communications
  • Training
  • United States
  • United States Special Operations Command
  • Work Measurement

Fields of Study

  • Education

Readers

  • Academic Conference Management
  • Enterprise Information Systems Architecture and Joint Command Capability Interoperability Support.
  • Instructional Design and Training Evaluation.