Determining what to teach

Managers and supervisors in all work and educational settings need accurate job information to support data-based decision making. The DACUM (Develop A Curriculum) job/occupational analysis process has been used to conduct over 500 workshops for various educational agencies, businesses and industries, and state and federal agencies. It is a very effective, quick and low-cost process for precisely identifying the duties and tasks performed by expert workers. Most trainees are from community college, companies, and government agencies around the United States and more than 25 other countries. Given an accurate and detailed description of what experts do, a school, college, company or government agency has a solid basis for training others to do the same. One writer described DACUM as a process for “cloning your best workers.” In addition to training and curriculum development, the process provides excellent data for management decision-making, career planning, needs assessment, test development, job redesign, performance evaluations, and quality control planning.