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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Journal - Notes taken during the workshop
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Presentation - Powerpoint given during the workshop