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Designing better engineering education through assessment : a practical resource for faculty and department chairs on using assessment and ABET criteria to improve student learning / edited by Joni E. Spurlin, Sarah A. Rajala, and Jerome P. Lavelle ; foreword by Richard M. Felder.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Engineering--Study and teaching (Continuing education).
- Engineering.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (386 pages)
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Sterling, Virginia : Stylus, 2008.
- Summary:
- This book is written for engineering faculty and department chairs as a practical guide to improving the assessment processes for undergraduate and graduate engineering education in the service of improved student learning. This book concludes with a vision for the future of assessment for engineering education.
- Contents:
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- FOREWORD
- PREFACE
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- ABET CRITERIA FOR ACCREDITING ENGINEERING PROGRAMS
- PART ONE: BASICS OF ASSESSMENT
- 1 UNDERSTANDING THE NATURE AND PURPOSE OF ASSESSMENT
- 2 ASSESSING STUDENT LEARNING Ensuring Undergraduate Students Are Learning What We Want Them to Learn
- 3 ASSESSMENT METHODS USED IN UNDERGRADUATE PROGRAM ASSESSMENT
- 4 USING ASSESSMENT RESULTS FOR IMPROVING STUDENT LEARNING
- 5 TOOLS AND ASSESSMENT METHODS SPECIFIC TO GRADUATE EDUCATION
- PART TWO: BARRIERS AND CHALLENGES
- 6 BARRIERS AND CHALLENGES TO ASSESSMENT IN ENGINEERING EDUCATION
- 7 OVERCOMING RESISTANCE TO CHANGE
- PART THREE: LEARNING ALONG THE CONTINUUM OF THE EDUCATIONAL EXPERIENCE
- 8 ASSESSING THE FIRST YEAR OF ENGINEERING EDUCATION
- 9 ASSESSMENT FOR IMPROVING TEACHING AND STUDENT LEARNING WITHIN A COURSE
- 10 USING FORMATIVE ASSESSMENT FOR PROGRAM IMPROVEMENT
- 11 THE CAPSTONE EXPERIENCE AT THE BACCALAUREATE, MASTER'S, AND DOCTORATE LEVELS
- PART FOUR: THE FUTURE
- 12 THE FUTURE OF ASSESSMENT
- GLOSSARY
- CONTRIBUTORS
- INDEX.
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781579226879
- 1579226876
- OCLC:
- 945135891
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