Title :
Panel - using various methods to holistically assess engineering education
Author_Institution :
Coll. of Eng., Nevada Univ., Reno, NV
Abstract :
This session is based on the vigorous discussions at FIE 2004 using surveys and portfolios for assessment. There will be four brief presentations by researchers currently using chemistry concept inventories at Arizona State, researchers at South Alabama using affective factors and student achievement, researchers at Humboldt State using student attitude surveys and research at nine southeastern universities using surveys and grade point data to assess students leaving engineering. These presentations will be followed by focus group discussion, group reports, and further discussions
Keywords :
engineering education; psychology; chemistry concept inventories; engineering education; grade point data; student achievement; student attitude surveys; Chemistry; Data engineering; Databases; Educational institutions; Engineering education; Instruments; Portfolios; Position measurement; Reliability engineering; Springs; Assessment; Concept Inventories; Longitudinal Studies; Surveys;
Conference_Titel :
Frontiers in Education, 2005. FIE '05. Proceedings 35th Annual Conference
Conference_Location :
Indianopolis, IN
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-9077-6
DOI :
10.1109/FIE.2005.1612210