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December 2010
Project Director’s ReportProject Director’s ReportOIDAP Quarterly MeetingOIDAP Quarterly Meeting
Baltimore, MDBaltimore, MD
Sylvia KarmanSylvia Karman
OIDAP Member & OIDAP Member &
Director, Office of Vocational Resources DevelopmentDirector, Office of Vocational Resources Development
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Presentation OverviewCreation of the Office of Vocational
Resources DevelopmentStatus of OIS activitiesNext steps for the OVRD and the
Occupational Information Development (OID)Project
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Office of Vocational Resources Development On October 1, Office of Program Development and Research announced the
establishment of a new unit dedicated to the OIS development The Occupational Information Development project team has become the
Office of Vocational Resources Development (OVRD) OVRD is charged with directing and conducting the research and
development for SSA’s OIS OVRD consists of two branches: one dedicated to research design and
development, scientific standards, testing, data collection, and data analysis; the other branch is dedicated to program integration to ensure that the OIS is developed in a way that meets SSA’s legal, program, and operational needs
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Objective: To identify the primary occupational, functional, and vocational characteristics of DI and SSI applicants whose claims were approved or denied at steps four or five of the sequential evaluation process for decisions made at the initial and hearings levels.
Completed reviews of initial-level cases at the end of JulyPresented highlights of preliminary results (based on results from 3,397 cases to Panel in August
Occupational and Medical-Vocational Study
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Completed quality reviews of initial-level casesDeveloped hearings-level Data Collection Instrument
(DCI) and protocolPre-testing of DCI expected to occur in DecemberReviews of hearings-level cases expected to begin in
January 2011
Occupational and Medical-Vocational Study (cont’d)
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Investigation of Existing Occupational Information SystemsObjective: To establish an informed basis for identification of SSA’s OIS requirements, processes, and options through examination of the development and operation of other OISs.
Conducted interviews with OIS officials from several nations and international organizations (United Nations International Labor Organization, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand) and obtained information from others (European Union and the U.K.)
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Investigation of Existing Occupational Information Systems (cont’d)
Identifying relevant contacts and information sources for other domestic OIS sources (e.g. OPM and DoD OISs)
Will develop an overarching report on the key features and methods used to develop other OISs in the U.S. and in other nations
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Colloboration Involving SSA’s Office of Disability Programs’ Interagency Agreement with NIH
OVRD has met with the Office of Disability Programs regarding the NIH and Boston University studies to follow the status of this work.
OVRD staff is beginning conversations with the NIH-BU team concerning what we may learn from their research experiences.
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OISD Workgroup UpdateThe workgroup has returned to a regular
schedule of meetings after a two-month hiatus and has received a briefing on the status of the project, organization and future activities of the workgroup, which include establishing a formal charter during their December meetings.
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OISD Research and Development PlanWe have completed an initial draft of a
comprehensive OIS Research and Design Plan, which includes a Business Process.
This plan is currently under review within OVRD, while we also conduct some of the initial work needed to further develop portions of plan (e.g., tasks, timeframes, and resources).
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Content ModelDeveloping a draft methodology
including identification of key sources for data element identification and possible content analysis tools and techniques.
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Legal Standards OVRD is working with the Office of
General Counsel to consult on the legal framework needed to support the OIS
Initial research has been provided concerning key issues in legal defensibility that has contributed to a working paper on legal, program, and technical requirements
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BPA for Job AnalystsBPA awarded to ICF International, Inc. in
September 2010ICF is conducting focus groups and
literature reviews to identify and benchmark job analysis methodology across various disciplines and to document current trends in recruitment, training and certification of job analysts
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BPA for Job Analysts (cont’d)Draft report on Training, Certification and
Recruitment due in April 2011Draft report on Job Analysis
Methodologies due in June 2011
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CommunicationsOVRD developing a detailed
communications planWorking with internal components to define
future web-based requirementsTaking steps to explore the requirements of
a web-based, multifaceted, interactive site
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Scientific Standards We have developed a method for locating relevant
scientific standards that can be applied to various OIS project activities with the primary goal of establishing requirements for the OIS that would lead to scientific defensibility.
Review of the OIS research and design plan underway to identify major and minor tasks that require scientific guidance, so that there can be a strategy in place to assure such guidance is in place.
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OIS Project: Next Steps in FY2011 Complete OIS research and design plan Develop job analyst recruitment, training,
certification plans Prepare and implement a study design for
the content model Examine methods of other OIS Follow up with the Census Bureau