Air Force implements new evaluation, feedback forms

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  • By Capt. Natalie Jolly
  • 90th Force Support Squadron
F.E. Warren AFB, Wyo. --  By now, all Warren Airmen should have attended briefings to become familiar with the new electronic evaluation forms. 

The purpose for changing the evaluation forms, the first major change since the early 1990s, is to improve performance documentation while taking advantage of available technology to reduce processing time and errors. 

The new officer performance report is a one-page report for officers who meet standards. This shortened report requires raters to focus on mission impact. 

The new enlisted performance reports improves how performance is documented by requiring evaluators to provide comments on each specific performance area and changing from a promotion recommendation to an overall assessment of performance. The ratings remain on a 1-5 scale and continue to be calculated as part of the Weighted Airman Promotion System. 

Both reports now document adherence to Air Force fitness standards: an addition to ensure our expeditionary force is fit for any mission. There will be three ratings: meets, does not meet and exempt. The evaluations are marked as meets standards if the ratee scores a 75 or greater on the fitness test. Those who score less than 75 are marked as does not meet standards, and the evaluation becomes a referral report. 

The marking is based on the current fitness test as of the report close-out date, even if the test is outside the reporting period. Only ratees who are exempt from all four components of the fitness test are marked exempt. Ratees exempt from some portions of the fitness assessment still receive a score for the tested areas, and that score is used to determine the correct marking for the report. 

The new evaluations also require digital signatures using the common access card, or CAC. This is to ease the processing time of evaluations, particularly when a rater or the member is deployed or at another duty station. 

An additional change is that the member himself acknowledges the report via digital signature prior to it becoming a matter of record. This allows the member to communicate with the rater any information that is missing or inaccurate before it is filed. This is to reduce the number of reports going through a formal correction process. 

The performance feedback worksheets are also redesigned to improve feedback sessions by aligning the feedback points with the same performance factors assessed on the performance reports. Performance feedbacks may be handwritten or typed and continue to follow the same guidelines for frequency and confidentiality outlined in AFI 36-2406, Officers and Enlisted Evaluation System, Chapter 2. 

For more information on the new Air Force Evaluation System, contact the commander's support staff or visit http://ask.afpc.randolph.af.mil/hotweb/evalforms.asp.