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Project Director’s ReportProject Director’s ReportOIDAP Quarterly MeetingOIDAP Quarterly Meeting

Boston, MABoston, MA

Sylvia KarmanSylvia Karman

OIDAP Member & OIDAP Member &

Director, Occupational Information Development ProjectDirector, Occupational Information Development Project

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Presentation Overview

OID project activity since June 2010 Panel presentations of SSA activity

in support of OIS development

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Completed reviews of ~3900 initial-level cases at the end of July

Presented highlights of preliminary results (based on first 1,350 cases) to Research Subcommittee in July

Developing hearings-level Data Collection Instrument (DCI) and protocol

Pre-testing of DCI expected to occur in mid-September

Reviews of hearings-level cases expected to begin by final week of September

Occupational and Medical-Vocational Study

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Project Director’s Report August 2010International OIS Investigation

Objective: To what extent have other nations developed comprehensive OIS and what lessons, if any, from their development and use of OI, particularly with regard to disability adjudication—can be applied to SSA’s efforts?Conducted interviews with OIS officials at the United Nations- International Labor Organization (ILO), Canada, Australia, and New Zealand and obtained documents from them on the development and use of OIS

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Project Director’s Report August 2010International OIS Investigation (cont’d)

Obtained documents and written replies from European Union and the U.K. OIS officials describing the development and use of OIS in their countries

Conducted follow-up contacts for further information from OIS and disability program officials

Draft report expected in September 2010Final report expected in November 2010

Social Security Administration

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Content ModelProject staff has completed a synthesis of Panel

content model recommendations, public comments, and the SSA User Needs Analysis (Summer 2009).

Project staff, working with the OISD Workgroup and including the synthesis, has drafted a list of OIS data elements for testing.

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Content Model (continued)Some next steps with user identified data

elements: Develop measures and scales to enable testing

of person-side elements (test instrument) with SSA users

Develop initial work analysis instrument(s) for testing

June 2010, SSA posted solicitation for contractor services to assist with testing the data elements with SSA adjudicators.

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IPA and Published Solicitations IPA: Northwestern University I/O doctoral candidate RFQ to conduct user testing of person-side data

elements RFQ to obtain VR researcher consultant services RFQ to obtain I/O or Psychometrician to develop

work analysis instrument RFQ for blanket purchase agreement for job analysis

business process

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Investigations & Meetings Review of sampling methodologies for

relevant Federal surveys and O*NET Meetings in June and July 2010:

Census Bureau OMB DOL/ETA

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Panel PresentationsSSA work to prepare for developmental and testing

activities needed for OISWhat we can learn from our administrative data

files and claimant filesWhat we can articulate regarding our programmatic

needsHow this information informs development of OIS