Title :
Course assessment and proposal report (CAPR): a year in review
Author :
Ruocco, Anthony S.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. Eng. & Comput. Sci., US Mil. Acad., West Point, NY, USA
fDate :
6/23/1905 12:00:00 AM
Abstract :
The Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the US Military Academy began a pilot program using the Course Assessment and Proposal Report (CAPR) in Fall 1999. By the Fall of 2000, every course in the department was required to use it. The format used for all courses was the same, and course directors were given an option of a Web-based entry system or a word-processor based entry system to prepare their CAPR. This paper discusses some highlights of developing and using the CAPR. Among items discussed are the different levels of acceptance between new instructors and more senior faculty. The varying degrees of acceptance of a Web-based version of the CAPR also impacted on utility of the tool. Changes to the CAPR should enhance long-range tracking of information for accreditation
Keywords :
accreditation; computer science education; educational administrative data processing; educational courses; engineering education; report generators; Course Assessment and Proposal Report; US Military Academy; Web-based entry system; computer science education; electrical engineering education; faculty; long-range accreditation information tracking; word-processor based entry system; Accreditation; Algorithm design and analysis; Data structures; Documentation; Information resources; Military computing; Proposals;
Conference_Titel :
Frontiers in Education Conference, 2001. 31st Annual
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-6669-7
DOI :
10.1109/FIE.2001.963727
