QUESTION
How does the Department of Citywide Administrative Services (DCAS) decide which job titles qualify for the bridge exam?
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The Department of Citywide Administrative Services (DCAS) uses job analysis to determine which job titles qualify for the bridge exam, based on common knowledge, skills, and abilities.
- The exam development process begins with job analysis to assess key knowledge, skills, and abilities of job titles.
- Job analysis leads to the development of test questions that identify commonalities among titles, facilitating their inclusion in the bridge exam.
- Titles too specific and not aligning with the bridge exam's criteria are excluded.
- This process also considers qualifications, aligned salaries, and the feasibility of including titles under the bridge exam scheme.
Carmen De La Rosa
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So when we're talking about the bridge exam, the bridge exams, often cover the same content for qualifications for multiple titles.
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How does decast make the determination of which titles can be tested with the bridge exam?
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As opposed to related tires titles that require applicants to take a specific test.
Katrina Porter
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So the exam development process starts with a job in analysis.
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So that's when we take a look at the key knowledge skills and abilities of each title to determine where, you know, where there's correlation.
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And then we use that to develop test questions.
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But I do want to hand it over to the expert, assistant commissioner Rob Alexander.
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He can give you a deeper dive into the process.
Rob Alexander
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Thank you.
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Hey, folks.
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Thank you, Cher.
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As you said, it's it's about comparability.
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Right?
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So the first bridge in FY22 To kick it off, we did look at what was similar.
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We already looked at qualifications that were kind of aligned, salaries that were sort of aligned, and then in the world of multiple choice testing.
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We we didn't sure.
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We weren't sure what we would get to.
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So we did a job analysis on all the titles and developed the test based on what's common amongst it's much easier to define that commonality when titles are sort of similar.
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As you kind of see that by 23, we had a little bit more commonality amongst those titles.
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And we just keep building amongst that commonality, bringing them in, see what's common, and then push them out.
Carmen De La Rosa
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Okay.
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And if you determine that a specific title doesn't fit in that mix, Are you then
Rob Alexander
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They they would then be hold out.
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If if it had to be tested specifically not every title or every position is is right for a bridge, So it would be pulled out if it was too specific to fit within the bridge.
Carmen De La Rosa
0:38:33
Okay.
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That makes sense.
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Okay.
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Thank you for answering that question.
