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Throughout my time as a firearms for a small police department in southern Ohio, I struggled with effectively and efficiently keeping track of students performance. I’m not talking about keeping track of one hundred student, not even twenty five students. I am tasked with managing an average of 9 students and I lamented over the fact that I didn’t have a method to satisfy my statistics driven brain.

Well, that is until this year. At the beginning of this year, I forced myself to sit and develop a plan and I believe I came up with a solution. I will post the range summary below but I will give a brief synopsis here. I identified three simple, efficient, and effective drills and use time as a measurement to monitor students success. Students were provided one to two practice attempts prior to performing two runs of the drill under time. After completion of the yearly range activities the times would be calculated and averaged for all officers. A “top shot” along with a “most improved” category would be awarded based on these statistics.

One issue I identified is that students would have very few attempts to perform these drills, so a limited number of data points could be developed In years prior, we had four firearms training sessions every year. Unfortunately, we were forced to cut down firearms training to twice a year. This severely limited data points but it still allows for performance to be tracked. In the future, when more data points can be factored in, I believe a clearer picture can be developed of individuals students performance. I will post the range summary below, keep in mind that information has been redacted from the summary.