Designing course-level performance measures aligned with program-level learning outcomes

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 (e.g. 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 multi-disciplinary team of faculty in the creation of robust performance measures for a non-technical process skill. Participants will gain first-hand experience dissecting a process area into supporting learning skills, identifying and ranking relevant factors for individual skills, utilizing these factors in the composition of multi-tiered rubrics which span novice to expert levels of performance, and embedding these rubrics in classroom assessment activities.