The purpose of this study is to examine core professional competencies for instructional designers through a job announcement analysis involving both qualitative and quantitative produces used on a qualitative data source. Using a conceptual framework as a guide, we extracted and examined a total of N = 1030 unique job announcements obtained from September to October 2019 from three popular job search databases: Glassdoor.com, Indeed.com and Monster.com. Using a systematic content analysis coding procedure, we coded the absence or presence of N = 185 competencies organized into knowledge, skill and ability statements (80 knowledge statements, 43 skill statements and 62 ability statements). These data were analysed using exploratory factor analysis models for dichotomously scored data, resulting in meaningful factors that are representative of these data. Our results highlight critical competencies for professional instructional designers in each domain, including soft skills, the ability to work with diverse stakeholders and more technical competencies like knowledge of video and audio authoring. The study provides a current snapshot of the knowledge, skills and abilities of instructional designers across settings. We provide a comprehensive discussion of our limitations, findings related to similar works, implications and suggestions for future research.

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教学设计专业人员的能力审查：探索性工作公告分析

这项研究的目的是通过职位公告分析来检查教学设计师的核心专业能力，该公告涉及定性数据源上使用的定性和定量产品。我们使用概念框架作为指南， 从三个受欢迎的求职数据库：Glassdoor.com，Indeed.com和Monster.com上提取并检查了从2019年9月至2019年10月获得的N = 1030个独特的职位公告。使用系统的内容分析编码程序，我们对N的存在或不存在进行了编码 = 185个能力，包括知识，技能和能力陈述（80个知识陈述，43个技能陈述和62个能力陈述）。使用探索性因素分析模型对这些数据进行了二分评分的数据分析，得出了代表这些数据的有意义的因素。我们的研究结果强调在各领域的专业教学设计关键能力，包括软技能，能力与各利益相关方的工作和更多的技术能力像知识的视频和音频制作。该研究提供了跨环境的教学设计者的知识，技能和能力的最新快照。我们全面讨论了我们的局限性，与类似作品相关的发现，对未来研究的启示和建议。