Problem Based Learning: A review of the monitoring and assessment model

This paper addresses an exemplary practice of the monitoring and assessment strategy in Problem Based Learning (PBL) environment. An initiative has been taken to provide some guidelines for curriculum designer, in order to design an engineering education curriculum, which is using PBL as a main pedagogical method. Since the monitoring and assessment strategy is one of the critical components that determine the success of PBL implementation, a review has been conducted which focuses on this aspect, in order to identify the specific key factors that contribute to a success of the PBL monitoring and assessment system. Then, these key factors are used to develop a novel PBL monitoring and assessment model for engineering education, specifically for technical skills programmes. Within this, several exemplary best practices have been identified, an approach such as the uses of rubric rating scale with emphasis on self-assessment process, and the strategy to assess two different areas of assessing personal skills and technical skills, appear as a key condition in creating competence graduates.