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Click on the Publication to view: This paper describes a methodology for combining course assignments that summarize course objectives with grading policy to ensure fulfillment of EC2000 criteria. The methodology involves the development of a grading policy that includes using key assignments that represent course material that strongly represents the course objectives and using these assignments to define ‘minimum passing criteria’. The grading policy insures that no student passes the course without demonstrating competence in all course objectives. Also, these key assignments become the objective evidence for the course meeting its program/EC2000 criteria. The result is a methodology that defines specific assignments to assess student learning outcomes and objective evidence of each student having meet course and program outcomes.
The Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) Department of Gannon University has devised a process in which faculty define specific graded (key) assignments that are linked to the (course-level) student learning objectives. A student is only permitted to pass a course if they have also met or exceeded the minimum passing criteria defined in these key assignments. In this way, each student passing a course is measurably justified in having met the course objectives. By the virtue of the process, all students who graduate from the program must have also met or exceeded the minimum standard on every course objective, and consequently ensures that these graduates have all (individually) met or exceeded the overall program goals.
This paper describes the use of an on-line survey and reporting tool to enhance ABET EC2000 preparation and to support consistent student evaluation of instruction. The tool includes interfaces to support chair, faculty and student processes necessary to publish, collect, and report survey information on learning outcomes from individual courses. This work includes tracking relationships of course outcomes to departmental and program outcomes, as well as use of the tool to collect and analyze data to support continuous quality improvement. The paper also describes an EC2000 process, the integration of the survey and reporting tool into the process, and the benefits derived from its use.
This paper describes the functionalities and use of an on-line survey and reporting system – EvalTOOLS™ to support consistent indirect evaluation of student learning outcomes, program outcomes and course instruction. The tool includes interfaces to support the chair, faculty and student processes necessary to publish, collect, and report survey information on learning outcomes from individual courses as well as from survey participants outside classrooms. This work includes data collection, analysis, and tracking relationships of course outcomes to departmental and program outcomes, in the support of continuous quality improvement processes. The paper describes the design of the web-based course-exit survey, the data collection, and analysis processes supported by the tool.
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