Enhancing Instructional Systems: The Development of a Tool for Evaluating Instructor and Student

The evaluation of flight crew performance has been an important area of focus throughout the history of the aviation industry. In response to the current need for an organisational approach to performance evaluation, along with the need to focus evaluation on a complex array of non-technical skills, a number of new approaches to the evaluation and assessment have been developed in recent times. While these new performance evaluation tools offer a more powerful means of evaluating operational performance, there currently does not exist an equivalent evaluation tool for the aviation training environment. This paper describes the development of a new tool for performance evaluation in relation to flight training operations. Building on the existing framework developed for the operationally-oriented tools, a new set of behavioural markers have been developed specifically for the analysis of instruction. This new tool provides a new systematic method for the evaluation of instructor and student performance, and provides a variety of information which can be used to enhance an organisation’s instructional systems