- adapted competency model
means a group of competencies with their associated description and performance criteria, adapted from an International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) competency framework that an organisation uses to develop competency-based training and assessment for a given role’;
- assessment
means a determination as to whether a person meets a required level of performance under given conditions, by collecting evidence from observable behaviours’;
- assessor endorsement
means the authorisation entered on and forming part of the licence, indicating the competence of the holder to assess the practical skills for the purpose of the issue of the licence, rating or endorsement(s) and revalidation or renewal thereof’;
- competency
means a dimension of human performance that is used to reliably predict successful performance on the job, and which is manifested and observed through behaviours that mobilise the relevant knowledge, skills and attitudes to carry out activities or tasks under specified conditions’;
- competency standard
means a level of performance that is defined as acceptable to demonstrate that a specific competency has been achieved’;
- competency-based training and assessment
means training and assessment that are characterised by a performance orientation, emphasis on standards of performance and their measurement, and the development of training and assessment to the specified performance standards’;
- conditions
means anything, in the context of competency-based training and assessment (CBTA), that may qualify a specific environment in which performance will be demonstrated’;
- observable behaviour (OB)
means a single role-related behaviour that can be observed and may or may not be measurable’;
- on-the-job training instruction
means the phase of unit training during which previously acquired job-related competencies are integrated in practice under the supervision of a qualified on-the-job training instructor in live traffic situation’;
- performance criteria
means criteria consisting of an observable behaviour, one or more conditions and a competency standard, and used to assess whether the required levels of performance have been demonstrated for a competency’;
- remote learning
means training situations in which instructors and students are physically separated and interact synchronously or asynchronously and in which information is typically transmitted via technological means’;
- renewal
means the administrative act taken after an endorsement or a certificate has expired that renews the privileges of the endorsement or certificate for a further specified period subject to the fulfilment of specified requirements’;
- revalidation
means the administrative act taken within the period of validity of an endorsement or certificate that allows the holder to continue to exercise the privileges of an endorsement or certificate for a further specified period subject to the fulfilment of specified requirements’;
- virtual classroom
means a virtual environment adapted for the remote learning process and not requiring a physical location, where synchronous learning takes place’;