Insights from Schools with PTDI-Certified Courses

Schools often can benefit from insights that their peers have discovered or developed for instructor training, lesson plans, recordkeeping for student time and evaluation, etc. This "Insights from Schools with PTDI-Certified Courses" section is a resource for just that. It is arranged according to the PTDI Certification Standard to which the "insights" apply.

Standard 6 - Student Evaluation and Testing

• Why Test Your Students

  Excerpt from “Student Course Book: Train the Trainer,” copyright PTDI, published by Thomson Delmar Learning; www.trainingbay.cengage.com/trucking. Used with permission.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

• Grade Card

  Example of grade card provided by Chuck Wirth, President, American Institute of Technology (AIT), Phoenix, AZ. For additional information: Phone 602.345.2401; Email cwirth@ait-schools.com

• Grading System - Daily Time Record
• Grading System - Daily Time Record Instructions

  Example of grading system-daily time record and grading system - daily time records instructions provided by Robert McClanahan, Director, Central Tech Transportation & Safety Education, Drumright, OK. For more information: Phone 918.352.7314; Email robertm@centraltech.edu

• Range Evaluation Sign-In Sheet

  Phil Whitmer, Dean of Transportation Technology, Baker College of Flint, Flint, MI. For more information: Phone 810.766.2263; Email: pwhitm02@baker.edu

• Study Guide - PreTrip Inspection
• Study Guide - Class A & B Permits
• Study Guide - General Knowledge
• Written Test - HazMat

  Example study guides and written test provided by Martin Garsee, Program Director Transportation Training, Houston Community College Northeast, Commercial Truck Driving Center. For more information: Phone:713.718.8203; Email: martin.garsee@hccs.edu
  
  

• CDL Skills Testing Guidelines - 2004 Pilot Test

  A PowerPoint presentation used to familiarize students with CDL skills test as administered by Delaware DMV and what students could expect from DTCC regarding skills training and testing. Provided by Chris Antonik, Instructional Coordinator, Delaware Technical & Community College, Georgetown, DE. For more information: Phone: 302.856.4655; Email: cantonik@dtcc.edu
  
  

• Range Evaluation
• Competencies - Safety Fundamentals
• Road Tests
• Written Test - Vehicle Systems & Malfunctions
• Written Final Exam - Advanced Driving Operations

  Examples of evaluations/tests provided by Chris Antonik, Instructional Coordinator, Delaware Technical & Community College, Georgetown, DE. For more information: Phone: 302.856.4655; Email: cantonik@dtcc.edu
  
  

• Skills Test
• Road Test

  Example of skills test and road test provided by Robert McClanahan, Director, Central Tech Transportation & Safety Education, Drumright, OK. For more information: Phone 918.352.7314; Email robertm@centraltech.edu
  
  

• Range Evaluation
• Road Test Final

  Example of range evaluation and road test final provided by Mary Beth Poole McCollum, Instructor & Transportation Programs Coordinator, Center for Transportation Training, College of Southern Maryland, LaPlata, MD. For more information: Phone: 301.934.7879; Email: marybethm@csmd.edu
  
  

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