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Inventory Assessment Instruments for Engineering Science
Assessment Instruments for Interest
and Attitudes
Assessment Instruments for Engineering
Process Skills
Data-Based Assessment Stories
Workshops
Summative Reports
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What
is assessment and evaluation?
Assessment is defined as data-gathering strategies, analyses,
and reporting processes that provide information that can be
used to determine whether or not intended outcomes are being
achieved.[1] Evaluation uses assessment
information to support decisions on maintaining, changing, or
discarding instructional or programmatic practices.[2]
These strategies can inform:
- The nature and extent of learning,
- Facilitate curricular decision making
- Correspondence between learning and the aims and objectives
of teaching, and
- The relationship between learning and the environments
in which learning takes place.[3]
Introduction to Assessment and Evaluation
across the Foundation Coalition
Instruments: Assessment instruments and processes can
be used to collect data on many different attributes and performance
characteristics. Instruments designed to collect the data may
be placed into one of three broad categories:
- Content Knowledge
- Student Interest, Perceptions, and Attitudes
- Process Knowledge, e.g., teamwork, design
Assessment Stories: In addition
to the instruments that have been developed across the Coalition,
data has been collected on the curricular innovations that
have been implemented on many different partner campuses.
Stories constructed from the data are available on the web
site.
Workshops: The Coalition also
offers several different workshops that campuses can host.
The Coalition will cover facilitator and travel expenses and
asks the host institution only to cover costs associated with
hosting the workshop
Glossary:
A glossary of terms commonly used in assessment and
evaluation has been compiled
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