TY - GEN
T1 - Development of an "S.M.A.R.T" assessment system for accreditation and continuous program improvement
AU - Karunamoorthy, Swami
PY - 2011
Y1 - 2011
N2 - Development and implementation of an educational program in engineering or technology is not something new to Colleges and Universities; however periodic assessment of a program for the purpose of accreditation by ABET as well as to demonstrate the continuous improvement remains a challenge for most of the programs. The design of a successful assessment system is open ended similar to any engineering design problem. In addition to that, the design guidelines are not well defined resulting in difficulties to develop an effective assessment system. There is a need for a framework to develop a good assessment system for program evaluation. An emphasis is given in this paper to explore such a framework. Assessment based on SMART system is suggested as a viable system with S - Sustainable Process; M - Measurable Performance Criteria; A - Actionable Feedback; R - Robust Methods; and T - Team Work of Constituents.
AB - Development and implementation of an educational program in engineering or technology is not something new to Colleges and Universities; however periodic assessment of a program for the purpose of accreditation by ABET as well as to demonstrate the continuous improvement remains a challenge for most of the programs. The design of a successful assessment system is open ended similar to any engineering design problem. In addition to that, the design guidelines are not well defined resulting in difficulties to develop an effective assessment system. There is a need for a framework to develop a good assessment system for program evaluation. An emphasis is given in this paper to explore such a framework. Assessment based on SMART system is suggested as a viable system with S - Sustainable Process; M - Measurable Performance Criteria; A - Actionable Feedback; R - Robust Methods; and T - Team Work of Constituents.
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/84869190440
U2 - 10.1115/imece2011-63783
DO - 10.1115/imece2011-63783
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84869190440
SN - 9780791854914
T3 - ASME 2011 International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition, IMECE 2011
SP - 177
EP - 181
BT - Engineering Education and Professional Development
PB - American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME)
T2 - ASME 2011 International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition, IMECE 2011
Y2 - 11 November 2011 through 17 November 2011
ER -