AMTEC Skills Validation

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AMTECSkills Validation

• Annette Parker
• System Director
• Modularization and Workforce Education
• Kentucky Community and Technical System

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Historical Background

• Focus on collaboration to define work
  requirements for maintenance and tool die
  technicians.
• Valid information to transform and improve
  instruction.
• Combine traditional single crafts into a
  multi-skilled environment.

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Consensus Building

• Past Policy Board meetings focused on skills
  standards.
• Resulting in objections and a lack of consensus.
• Early 2006 considerable interest was generated on
  a Turbo-DACUM job profile followed with a Delphi.
  

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Reaching Agreement

• Develop competencies using a Turbo-DACUM job
  profile.
• Electronic DELPHI process - collect broad-based
  data.
• Larger group input.

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The Curriculum Focus

• Tool die and maintenance specific applications.
• Combine traditional single crafts into a
  multi-skilled environment.

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Curriculum Development Process

• Completed TurboDACUM at Toyota Motor
  Manufacturing Kentucky (Fall 2007).
• Used the TurboDACUM data for the Delphi survey
  (March 2008).
• Report findings geographic region, industry
  type, colleges and companies .
• Develop a common core for the AMTEC Core
  curriculum.

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The TurboDACUM Process

• A computer-enhanced occupational and task
  analysis process was used to identify skills and
  competencies for curriculum design.
• The panel then identified any pre-requisite
  skills including--calculations, communications,
  technology, and safety.

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TurboDACUM Results
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Delphi Survey

• Statistically reliable method
• Broad-based data using an electronic survey
• Three rounds to refine the data
• Geographically dispersed group of experts
• Consensus for the common competencies required in
  automotive manufacturing

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Summary of Delphi Results

• Round 1
• Participant Total  132/232 56.9
• Round 2
• Participant Total 102/232 44
• Round 3
• Participant Total 70/232 30.2

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Sample of Delphi Results
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Demographic Information
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Delphi Data Sorts
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Analysis by Survey Round
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Industry Faculty Comparisons
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Regional Comparison
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Data Analysis

• The TurboDACUM was a valid and reliable measure
  of the competencies and skills for Toyota Motor
  Manufacturing Kentucky Maintenance and Tool Die
  Technicians.
• The Delphi proves that the common competencies
  and skills for the automotive partner companies
  are similar with some unique differences.
• Further research and the gap analysis will
  identify the common competencies and skills, as
  well as, the company specific skills.
• The AMTEC partner colleges will have valid
  information to make curriculum adjustments to
  better meet the needs of the industry partners.

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Next Steps

• KCTCS faculty will conduct a gap analysis to
  their current curriculum content, leading to
  modularization.
• Partner colleges and companies will receive
  reports, sorted as required, for beginning a gap
  analysis.

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Transition to the Proposed National Center of
Excellence

• Build upon the work from the current project to
• sponsor an AMTEC conference to compare the
  individual companies and colleges.
• provide instructional program gaps and agree on a
  common core of content.
• develop the missing curriculum content through
  collaborative projects using an on-line and
  simultaneous revision processes.
• develop the web-based and modularized model
  program design for flexible access
• brand and standardize the model learning program
  for distribution

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Questions