NDLI: Effective evaluation strategies to meet global accreditation requirements

Content Provider	IEEE Xplore Digital Library
Author	Brodie, L. Bullen, F. Jolly, L.
Copyright Year	2011
Description	Author affiliation: Dean, Faculty of Engineering and Surveying, University of Southern Queensland (Bullen, F.) \|\| Strategic Partnerships (Jolly, L.) \|\| University of Southern Queensland (Brodie, L.)
Abstract	With the ongoing internationalisation of the engineering profession there is an ever increasing need for universities to provide robust evaluation of the quality of their undergraduate degree programs and to benchmark that quality internationally. It is important that the claims made of course evaluation and renewal, during the evaluation-accreditation process, can be substantiated and the tenuous connection between course evaluation and international acceptance as a professional engineer, be strengthened. There are a variety of methods used to evaluate courses and programs including student questionnaires, final grades, progression-retention data, and graduate attribute and competency mapping. The authors compared typical examples of such approaches to study the robustness of the link between the data collected and the evaluative judgments. It was found that there is a great deal of inference involved in the process and that the causative link between curriculum design and pedagogy, and skills and attributes, is often tenuous. Some of these approaches should not be taken as final evaluation outcomes, but rather inputs to a larger overarching evaluation strategy. It was concluded that a “program logic” approach such as that used by the University of Wisconsin, Extension, Program Development and Evaluation Model offers a superior approach for capturing and assessing the causal connections between local evaluation and international accreditation.
File Size	557019
File Format	PDF
ISBN	9781612844688
ISSN	01905848
e-ISBN	9781612844695
e-ISBN	9781612844671
DOI	10.1109/FIE.2011.6142793
Language	English
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Publisher Date	2011-10-12
Publisher Place	USA
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Rights Holder	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subject Keyword	Monitoring Accreditation Educational institutions Conferences Cities and towns Portfolios Training program logic accreditation course and program evaluation
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Education Computer Science Applications Software

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