Implementing Competency-Based Training and Assessment in Aviation

Implementing Competency-Based Training and Assessment in Aviation explains in detail, with examples, how to implement Competency-Based Training and Assessment in aviation. It describes how to develop competence models, assess workplace competence and understand the role of competence models in recruitment and selection. Taking the framework published by ICAO, this book breaks it down into its component parts and explains how to identify the changes in behaviour needed to enable individuals to act safely and efficiently in hazardous environments. It outlines the framework that underpins training intervention design and investigates tactics of intervention based on current evidence around efficacy. This book acts as a guide to constructing classroom activities that serve as vehicles for addressing the link between declarative and process knowledge under controlled conditions. Airline personnel, pilots and aviation industry professionals involved in performance assessments and training will benefit from this book.

Norman MacLeod was commissioned as an officer in the Royal Air Force Education and Training Branch in 1977. He was trained in the use of Instructional Systems Design and has applied that methodology extensively to various training projects, including a redesign of the RAF C-130 transport aircraft. He was a Leadership Instructor at the RAF College, Cranwell; the Chief Instructor at the RAF School of Instructional Techniques; commanded a Training School and was the Staff Officer responsible for training policy for all ground personnel. In 1994, he set up his own consultancy delivering Crew Resource Management Training. He was an approved UK CAA CRM facilitator and a CRM Instructor Examiner. He has worked in all types of aviation, including rotary wing, business jets, low-cost carriers and legacy airlines. He has been involved in AQP development for a major US carrier and initiated the first ATQP workshop in Europe in 2007. Most recently, he was the Human Factors Manager for Cathay Pacific Airways in Hong Kong. He has published extensively on aspects of aviation training design, and in 2021, published the first book to apply a competence approach to pilot CRM.

1. Introduction. 2. The Development of Training Design in Aviation. 3. What Is 'Learning'?. 4. The Task Analysis and The Competence Model. 5. Analysis: Writing the Training Specification. 6. Scoping the Course Content: Design. 7. Sampling Performance: Testing and Assessing. 8. Developing Materials and Interventions. 9. Implement the Course. 10. Managing the Assessment Process. 11. Evaluation: Does Our Training System Work?. 12. Epilogue.