January 21, 2010 Integrated Project and Panel Work Plan FY 2010 Sylvia Karman, OIDAP Member & Project Director Mary Barros-Bailey, Ph.D., OIDAP Chair

1/14/2010 Social Security Administration 2 Presentation Overview SSA project activity since September 2009 How SSA is incorporating Panel recommendations Next steps for the project and the Panel

1/14/2010 Social Security Administration 33 OIS Project Activity: September -- December 2009 Project Directors Report Short term project Developed initial plans for project Briefed Commissioner for Social Security, other SSA executives, monitoring authorities, and other stakeholders on Panel recommendations and OIS project plans Completed study design for Occupational Medical- Vocational Study Completed working paper for UNA for Content Model Completed synthesis of Panel recommendations and all user input

1/14/2010 Social Security Administration 44 OIS Project Activity: September -- December 2009 Project Directors Report Commissioner appointed two new members to Panel Labor Market Economist Quantitative Psychologist Identified key issues and options to develop OIS functional requirements Began developing study design for OIS Design Study I Began N=1 investigation of qualitative and quantitative research methods International OIS Study underway Drafting lessons learned working paper

1/14/2010 Social Security Administration 55 Panels General Recommendations Need a new OIS Technical, legal, and data requirements Data elements for the new OIS Classification of occupations Creation of internal and external expertise to create and maintain the OIS Basic and applied research Measurement considerations Communication with stakeholders and researchers Source: Occupational Information Development Advisory Panel Content Model and Classification Recommendations for the Social Security Administration Occupational Information System (2009).

1/14/2010 Social Security Administration 6 SSAs Response to Recommendations Panel recommendations for new OIS & content model ID key issues and developing OIS functional requirements Creating content model & instruments Developing OIS Design Study I Panel recommendations for classification Developing initial classification Consider recommendations in sampling plan development Panel recommendation for internal & external expertise Working to increase staff and bring in specialists Appointed two new Panel members (Continued)

1/14/2010 Social Security Administration 7 SSAs Response to Recommendations Panel recommendations for basic and applied research Occupational and Medical-Vocational Study International OIS Study OIS Design Study I Panel recommendations for measurement Consider measurement issues in content model Consider measurement issues in instruments Panel recommendations for communication with stakeholders and researchers Taking steps to establish a web-based platform to operationalize recommendations

1/14/2010 Social Security Administration 88 OIS Project: Next Steps in FY 2010 Develop initial content model Develop functional requirements for OIS Develop person-side and job-analysis instruments Conduct first OIS Design Study Develop and test sampling methods Develop and test options for data collection Test technical design issues Inform policy development Develop job analyst recruitment, training, certification plans

1/14/2010 Social Security Administration 99 Panel: Next Steps in FY 2010 Investigate sampling methodologies Investigate data collection options Conduct roundtables with additional experts, e.g., Labor Market Information/Sampling & Data Collection Linkages between Person- and Work-side Review and provide advice on OIS project study designs; instruments; data collection, and sampling methodologies Review and provide guidance on relevant reports Prepare report on Panel FY 2010 activities due 11/30/10

1/14/2010 Social Security Administration 10 Recap Status of OIS project activities Sept--Dec 2009 briefed executives and others begun groundwork for OIS development activities Next steps for project in FY 2010: Plan and conduct relevant preparatory studies Content model & functional requirements & instruments Communications Sampling and data collection methods Next steps for Panel in FY 2010 Guidance for current and FY 2011 project activities