Comments like Exercise covered--OK--Satis--Average--good--ok
Ah, yes, I remember that well! At a school I used to work at, an instructor who left before I joined seemed to write "Good" for every single exercise, which made it interesting when I had to start flying with his students..... (Luckilly, the school was small enough that I knew how most of the students were progressing by reputation anyway, but that's not the point.)
I now work at an approved school, so the requirements are different to registered facilities, but I think PPL instructors could probably learn a lot from the student records we keep for CPL and IR students. One A4 page per flight, which includes (as well as the house-keeping stuff like dates, hours, exercise details, etc): what was covered in the briefing, how the student performed in flight (nearly half the page), what the student was de-briefed on, the student's overall performance on the flight, a grade (A, B, C or D), and space for the student to sign to acknowledge he has read his record. And the most important bit: what the student will do next flight.
FFF
----------------