What is the SCID method?

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19. What is the SCID method?

SCID (Systematic Curriculum and Instructional Development) is a thorough task analysis method developed with the aim of facilitating the identification and performance of training actions that are highly relevant to workers’ needs. It may be done as a deeper complement to DACUM or to other productive processes based on other methodologies (experts’ opinions or interviews with workers, for instance) that may go about ordering the tasks that make up a job position.

SCID enables the design of educational guides that focus on student self-learning. To develop these guides, it is necessary to establish criteria and evidence of performance that may later on facilitate assessment. Tasks are at least detailed in: steps, execution standards, equipment, tools and necessary material, safety standards to be observed, decisions that the worker may have to make, information the worker uses to decide and description of the mistakes made while deciding in an inappropriate manner. The following page includes an example of disaggregation from a DACUM research chart.

The content of the learning packages, oriented to selflearning and customised learning, begins with a description of how to use them. Then the instruction pages describe the crucial aspects that the worker needs to master but not the way in which the job should be done. It talks about the decisions that the worker should make. It includes a self-assessment sheet and it ends up with a detail on the way in which the supervisor should carry out the execution test.(1)

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1 Further information available at: CONOCER, Análisis ocupacional y funcional del trabajo, Madrid, IBERFOP-OEI, 1998. and www.oitcinterfor.org/competencia laboral/herramientas

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