Title :
Development of outcome assessments at WPI
Author :
Durgin, William W. ; Schachterle, Lance
Author_Institution :
Worcester Polytech. Inst., MA, USA
Abstract :
The WPI PLAN, adopted by the WPI faculty in 1970, strongly anticipates current thinking about student outcomes assessments by structuring degree requirements that mandate that students demonstrate their ability to perform professional functions embodied in ABET Criteria 2000, especially Criteria 3 and 4. The WPI faculty has also practiced both student and self evaluations of these outcomes through respectively grades and peer review (both departmental and campus-wide) of student performance
Keywords :
educational courses; engineering education; standards; ABET Criteria 2000; WPI PLAN; degree requirements; outcome assessments; professional functions; student outcomes assessments; Area measurement; Art; Capacity planning; Data engineering; Design engineering; Educational institutions; Humans; Iron; Knowledge engineering; Mathematics;
Conference_Titel :
Frontiers in Education Conference, 1996. FIE '96. 26th Annual Conference., Proceedings of
Conference_Location :
Salt Lake City, UT
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-3348-9
DOI :
10.1109/FIE.1996.573007
