Presented at the 12th Annual GlobalMET Conference "Maritme Education & Training: Closing the Gap between What is Needed and What is Provided". ABSTRACT: To be proficient at sea we need to have a combination of underpinning knowledge, relevant technical skills and the necessary soft skills, which make us good shipboard team players capable of managing tasks in a safe manner. During maritime training, it is important to assess these three areas to establish the proficiency gaps relating to the learning objectives/ goals. These identified deficiencies could subsequently guide and encourage us in more effective ways to tweak our learning artifacts to fill in these gaps. This paper presents some of the tools, which have been successfully used in classrooms and in simulator-based training both in formative and in summative situations at the EMAS Academy.

1. Addressing the Proficiency Gap
in
Maritime Training
3~4 April 2014
Kalyan Chatterjea, EMAS Academy, Singapore
12th
Annual
GlobalMET
Conference
Kuala Lumpur

2. Background
Assessment for Knowledge-based
Training
Q & A
Assessment for Skill-based
Training
Assessment for Soft-skills

3. Maritime Education & Training
 To begin with we had the
o Traditional Knowledge-based Training (KBT)
 With the advent of STCW
o Skill-based Training in Simulators (SBT)
 With the revised STCW 2010
o Non-technical Skills (NoTechs) have also become
important

5. for Successful Shipboard Task Performance,
We Need to Have a Combination of
 Underpinning Knowledge
 Relevant Technical Skills
 Necessary Soft Skills

6. Our topic today is how to detect the gaps in
training when we train in these three areas
 Underpinning Knowledge - Gaps
 Relevant Technical Skills - Gaps
 Necessary Soft Skills - Gaps

7. Pupils need to know how their
learning is progressing
Teachers also need to know
how their pupils are progressing
To guide both their own teaching
and pupils further learning
Assessment Reform Group, 2002
Faculty of Education
University of Cambridge

9.  We use for our digital assessment.
 ExamView is used to develop question banks for the
following types of questions:
 Multiple Choice
 Multiple Answer Questions
 Matching

10. ExamView CPS(Classroom Performance System) is used
for quick assessment and recording of scores

11. ExamView CPS(Classroom Performance System) is used
for quick assessment and recording of scores

12. ExamView CPS(Classroom Performance System) is used
for quick assessment and recording of scores

13. Trigger logics developed to capture simulation events

14. Draining moisture from the Compressed-air System

15. Trigger activated for ‘coach message’ & assessment

16. Assigning Scores for Drains-clear

17. All drained in Compressed Air System allocating 10 marks

19. Soft-skills are introduced through crew-resource-management
course
Soft-skills
Were first highlighted in the
aviation industry when even
experienced pilots made
errors!
Soft-skills (often referred to as
non-technical skills) are now
well-established in the
aviation industry.
STCW 2010 Manila Amendments require resource
management courses from Jan 2012 for all COC holders

20. Assessing these skills are not easy and in aviation they use
Behavioural Markers as seen and discussed in the following
slides for these assessments.

21. NOTECHS > Human Factors > Categories > Error Handling

23. Steps for developing BMs:
 Propose a set of behavioural makers, considered to be importance
to performance, for the content area.
 Collect data on these markers after going through simulated or
actual environments.
 Compare and contrast these data sets from various focus groups.
 Try & establish relationships between these behaviours and the
errors encountered in practice.
 From above processes select the most useful behavioural markers,
which could impact team training interventions.

24. Behavioural Markers Form with BM Ratings

25. Man Over Board
Exercise – Run 1
Man Over Board
Exercise – Run 2

28. Details on
Behaviour Marker
Development and its
usage in a Simulator
Exercise are given in our
Publication
Bridge Resource Management
- Teamwork & Leadership

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Questions & Answers