Consider the following training objective for a training session designed for training your crew how to pump bilges: "Using the engine room bilge system of the M/V Underway where a bilge pocket requires pumping out and the automated bilge pumping controls have been disabled, by the end of the training session the participants will be able to pump an engine room bilge pocket dry manually to the bilge water holding tank in conformance with the vessel's engine room bilge pumping procedure checklist. There shall be no violations of the domestic and international pollution prevention regulations." What role does the phrase "where a bilge pocket requires pumping out" serve in the objective statement?
• Training objectives components: behavior, condition, and standard • Difference between a condition (situation under which performance occurs) and a standard (how well it must be done) • How action verbs describe what the trainee will actually do
• Look at the whole objective and separate what describes the action the trainee will perform from what describes the situation in which they perform it. • Identify which part of the sentence talks about how well or correctly the task must be done, and compare that to the phrase in question. • Ask yourself: does the phrase describe the task itself, the quality of performance, or the circumstances under which the task must be carried out?
• Verify which clause describes the environment/situation in which the trainee will operate. • Verify which parts of the objective provide measurable standards like "no violations" and following checklists. • Confirm that you can point to the explicit action verbs that describe what the trainee will do (e.g., "pump"), and see whether the target phrase functions as an action, a standard, or a condition.
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