Designing Better Engineering Education Through Assessment : A Practical Resource for Faculty and Department Chairs on Using Assessment and ABET Criteria to Improve Student Learning.

Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- FOREWORD -- PREFACE -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- ABET CRITERIA FOR ACCREDITING ENGINEERING PROGRAMS -- PART ONE: BASICS OF ASSESSMENT -- 1 UNDERSTANDING THE NATURE AND PURPOSE OF ASSESSMENT -- 2 ASSESSING STUDENT LEARNING Ensuring Undergraduate Students Are Learning What We Want Them to Learn -- 3 ASSESSMENT METHODS USED IN UNDERGRADUATE PROGRAM ASSESSMENT -- 4 USING ASSESSMENT RESULTS FOR IMPROVING STUDENT LEARNING -- 5 TOOLS AND ASSESSMENT METHODS SPECIFIC TO GRADUATE EDUCATION -- PART TWO: BARRIERS AND CHALLENGES -- 6 BARRIERS AND CHALLENGES TO ASSESSMENT IN ENGINEERING EDUCATION -- 7 OVERCOMING RESISTANCE TO CHANGE -- PART THREE: LEARNING ALONG THE CONTINUUM OF THE EDUCATIONAL EXPERIENCE -- 8 ASSESSING THE FIRST YEAR OF ENGINEERING EDUCATION -- 9 ASSESSMENT FOR IMPROVING TEACHING AND STUDENT LEARNING WITHIN A COURSE -- 10 USING FORMATIVE ASSESSMENT FOR PROGRAM IMPROVEMENT -- 11 THE CAPSTONE EXPERIENCE AT THE BACCALAUREATE, MASTER'S, AND DOCTORATE LEVELS -- PART FOUR: THE FUTURE -- 12 THE FUTURE OF ASSESSMENT -- GLOSSARY -- CONTRIBUTORS -- INDEX.

This book is written for engineering faculty and department chairs as a practical guide to improving the assessment processes for undergraduate and graduate engineering education in the service of improved student learning. This book concludes with a vision for the future of assessment for engineering education.

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