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Knowledge Element: create Basic technical drawing

Definition of Knowledge Element:

Know how to create a technical drawing that will show the necessary elements of a job and enable engineers reading the drawing to complete the job correctly.

A very brief summary of the Knowledge:

Drawings should be drawn to scale. For quick drawings, make use of a scale rule. The basic plan layout drawings should refer to other drawings such as electrical wiring drawings etc. Standard BS symbols and procedures should be used throughout.

A summary of expert opinion:

The knowledge named 'create Basic technical drawing' is considered to be quite important.
In addition, the knowledge is thought to be slightly difficult to replace, it is mostly learned by study, and Between 30% and 60% of Group are Experts.
It is also knowledge mostly used generally, and completely stable knowledge.
See Parameter table below for more detail.

Risk:

This knowledge element has a risk value of 2.93, whilst the average risk for the whole knowledge structure is 4.862. Consult the RISK page for more details.

The average risk of the prerequisite family of this knowledge node is 1.032 (adjusting for nodes with few members of the prerequisite family).

The average normalised prerequisite family risk of the whole map 2.122, whilst the average for the top ten percent family risk is 5.152.

Knowledge linked by learning dependency:

Postrequisite knowledge implies that create Basic technical drawing must be understood before for a person can gain a full understanding of the knowledge listed in the top row of the Linked Knowledge table.

Prerequisite knowledge (bottom row in the Linked Knowledge table), is knowledge that should be understood before a full understanding of create Basic technical drawing is possible.

Each of the 1 prerequisite knowledge elements shown in the table is a leaf node. That means that each element has no further prerequisites.

Parameters assigned for create Basic technical drawing.

Parameter Details for: create Basic technical drawing
Identifier Name Value Clarifier Weight Study Mean
P1
Importance
5.0
quite important
1.0
6.34
P2
Recovery
2.0
slightly difficult to replace
1.0
3.38
P3
Study-Exp
2.0
mostly learned by study
1.0
3.46
P4
Known By
5.0
Between 30% and 60% of Group are Experts
-1.0
2.80
P6
Specialised
2.0
knowledge mostly used generally
1.0
5.05
P7
Stability
9.0
completely stable knowledge
-0.7
6.41

People Involved with create Basic technical drawing:

PersonExpertCapableResponsible
M A Smith
Yes
Yes
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A A Pendragon
Yes
Yes
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Computed Similarity

The most similar nodes to create Basic technical drawing are Job preparation and Basic PC architecture and Mechanical cable jointing and Purchasing and Cable management.

The most dissimilar node to create Basic technical drawing is Customer Services.