Direct and indirect assessment methods: key ingredients for continuous quality improvement and ABET accreditation

• Autores: Z. A. Yamayee, R. J. Albright
• Localización: The International journal of engineering education, ISSN-e 0949-149X, Vol. 24, no. Extra 5, 2008, págs. 877-883
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • The new accreditation criteria, better known as ABET EC 2000, require that each program `must have an assessment process withdocumented results.' Furthermore, a white paper by the Engineering Accreditation Commission's Executive Committee states, `Theassessment process should include direct and indirect measures and does not rely only on self-report surveys and evidence that thematerial is `covered' in the curriculum.' This paper presents: (a) an overview of an assessment process to make engineering programsABET accreditation compliant; (b) assessment methods that are used to collect data, interpret them, and utilize the results to improveengineering programs; (c) a process to choose the appropriate mix of direct and indirect assessment methods/instruments, and (d)implementation of assessment methods to an electrical engineering program. As an example, the paper presents a sample of recentchanges that have led to improvements based on program assessment of the University of Portland School of Engineering electricalengineering program.