Standard 1: Purpose

Standard 2: Administration

Standard 3: Learning Resources

Standard 4: Finances

Standard 5: Student Services

Standard 6: Instruction

Standard 7: Equipment

Standard 8: Facilities

Standard 9: Instructional Staff

Standard 10: Co-op Agreements

Standard 6.15: On-Vehicle Service and Repair Work

On-vehicle service and repair work should be scheduled to benefit the student and supplement ongoing instruction on items specified in the NATEF task list. A student should have had instruction and practice on a specific repair task before on-vehicle service and repair work requiring that task is assigned. Vehicles donated by the manufacturers or other sources, customer-owned vehicles, and other training vehicles may be used as the primary source of on-vehicle service and repair work. Training program student-owned vehicles, school buses, and other vehicles owned and operated by the governing body of the school should not be the primary source of on-vehicle service and repair work vehicles. All vehicles in the lab/shop should have a completed industry-type work order attached to or on the vehicle.

Requirements:

  1. Rate the degree to which on-vehicle service and repair work benefits the student and supplements on-going instruction.
  2. Rate the degree to which a student had instruction and practice on a specific repair task before on-vehicle service and repair work is assigned.
  3. Rate the degree to which the program policies do not allow the following as the primary source of on-vehicle service and repair work:
    1. students in the automobile technician training program working on their own vehicles
    2. school buses or other vehicles owned and operated by the governing body of the school (NOTE: vehicles donated by manufacturers or other sources are acceptable as the primary source of on-vehicle service and repair work projects.)
  4. Rate the use of a written, industry-type work order attached to or placed inside the vehicle.

Recommended Documentation:

  • Statement explaining the program's definition of "customer vehicle work."
  • Statement explaining how vehicles are accepted as projects: Is class instruction tailored to match the available vehicles, or are specific vehicles sought to correspond to the class instruction? Also explain how students' involvement with customer vehicle work benefits the participating students.
  • Copies of real work orders from past projects.
  • Statement explaining how students demonstrate their task ability before being assigned to work on customer vehicles. Do the students work on mock-ups, school-owned vehicles, other?
  • Copy of school's policy on sources for customer vehicle work. This may be in the school's or your program's policies and procedures manual. Include an estimate of the proportion of customer vehicle work derived from appropriate sources, and the proportion of work done from other sources. Describe the safeguards in place to assure that student-owned or school-owned vehicles do not become the primary source of customer vehicle work.
  • Blank sample of the work order form used in your program. Explain your source for the form. How do you know that the form you use meets industry standards?
  • Sample Documentation 6.15A
  • Sample Documentation 6.15B
  • Sample Documentation 6.15C1
  • Sample Documentation 6.15C2
  • Sample Documentation 6.15D