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Day 3 – Thursday 19th April 2012
Session 8
ABSTRACT
Matthias Groppe, Head of Training, Pilot Training Network GmbH
Influencing Student Progress Monitoring in a Distributed Training Environment Via
the Training Record Design
The objective for a new e-Design of the Training Records required for Monitoring
Students’ Training Progress was to better understand the cognitive mechanisms of
the flight instructors when recording student progress at various distributed
locations. If flight training is offered in a Distributed Learning Environment, a
standardized way of monitoring the learning progress is necessary that allows
maintaining a shared situational awareness of the students’ progress at different
locations at the same time. In such a way, not only a synchronous provision of all
training records that require attention has to be assured, but also a documentation
of training is required that provides the maximum standardization among the
instructors’ cognitive functions of the students’ performance.
During a study, a new design combining of electronic and traditional training records
was proposed that allows monitoring the training progress including the students’
performance and the adherence to the syllabus at the first glance. A colour-coded
grading system was developed that highlights areas with progress not on track or
performance below required completion standard. Within the agreed grading
policies, a minimum performance level was defined that initiates cooperative sharing
of such information with the other training locations.
Application of such training records for progress monitoring revealed that the
transparency gained from such a way of continuous training progress awareness
resulted in an improved timeliness and quality of students’ performance assessment
with reduced duration and cost of training for students with performance below
required completion standard.