Designing Course-Level Performance Measures Aligned with Program-Level Learning Outcomes

FIE Workshop Session

October 20, 2004

Hyatt Regency, Savannah

Steve Beyerlein, University of Idaho
Dan Apple, Pacific Crest

While engineering and applied sciences faculty are well-qualified to evaluate student performance in content knowledge and in discipline-specific skills, they are far less comfortable evaluating other ABET competencies (such as communication, ethical responsibility, global awareness, and life-long learning). External facilitation with expertise on the growth and measurement of performance skills is helpful in translating ABET program expectations to the classroom level.  The intent of this workshop is to illustrate how to lead a multidisciplinary team of faculty in the creation of robust performance measures for a non-technical process skill.  Participants will gain experience dissecting a process area into supporting learning skills, identifying and ranking relevant factors for individual skills, using these factors in composing multi-tiered rubrics that span novice to expert levels of performance, and embedding these rubrics in classroom assessments.

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Workshop Journal - Notes taken during the workshop

Workshop Presentation - Powerpoint given during the workshop