Specialization-Specific Course Assessments Integrated for Program Assessment

• Main Authors: Qurban A. Memon, Adnan Harb, Shakeel Khoja
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Hindawi Limited 2012-01-01
• Series: Education Research International
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2012/987543

The program assessment process combines assessments from individual courses to generate final program assessment to match accreditation benchmarks. In developing countries, industrial environment is not diversified to allow graduating engineers to seek jobs in all disciplines or specializations of an engineering program. Hence, it seems necessary to seek evolution of an engineering program assessment for specialized requirements of the industry. This paper describes how specialization-specific courses’ assessments are grouped per requirements and then integrated towards overall program assessment. A software program application is developed to automate this development to reduce assessment work and show equivalently as integration of specialization-specific assessments per outcome per term. The implementation also shows how outcomes are integrated per specialization-specific courses in order to judge the implementation of the program assessment. This effort is expected to help stake holders of the program to judge evolution and quality of specialization tracks vis-à-vis expectations of the local industry.