This paper serves as the third in a series of studies for job performance and talent management of Army education professionals, specifically Instructional Systems Specialists (ISS), that has stretched from 2020 to 2022. The derived descriptive statistics from this paper provides objective insight into both TRADOC military and civilian Army Leader perceptions and expectations of job task and competency performance of the Instructional Systems Specialists (ISS). This information also supplements those previous studies within the series that were completed in from 2020 to 2021, in which perceptions and expectations from a sample frame of the Army’s current ISS professionals were gathered regarding their own job performance. Those previous studies identified a talent management gap in that ISSs report performing Instructional Systems Design (ISD), otherwise known as ADDIE, specific tasks for which they must fulfill collegiate educational background requirements to be hired. The identified gaps also noted the ISS tended to act in more administrative and information management roles, rather than as the ISD specialist they were hired to be. A follow-on 2022 studied focused on job performance of instructors following their graduation from the current Army instructor training course. Given the COVID training environment, the 2022 study looked to whether instructor job performance was influenced by the modality by which the student-instructor received the course – resident or virtually. The 2022 study reported that measures of confidence in instructor ADDIE related job task performance was impacted because Instructional Systems Specialists were not consulted in the design and delivery of curriculum when transitioning from a resident to a virtual environment. This paper will confirm the noted gap from the previous studies but from the perspective of the Army Leader, thereby identifying, with great fidelity, the educational talent management issue current plaguing Army efforts to modernize education in support of Multidomain Operations.
Keywords
DESIGN, EDUCATION, HUMAN PERFORMANCE, MILITARY LEARNING
Additional Keywords
instructional design, Army Learning and Performance, Talent Management