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One of the major challenges of the School of Engineering of Universidad del Norte has been to gua... more One of the major challenges of the School of Engineering of Universidad del Norte has been to guarantee an education of quality to its alumni. In the last few years professors from different engineering disciplines have been implementing the Assessment project in the everyday teaching. This project is being implemented by stages. In the first stage, the learning objectives of each engineering program as well as the objectives on each course were reviewed and reformulated, and their outcomes were formulated. In this phase, the alumni profiles were reformulated from the competence approach. In the next stage, a part of the faculty implemented the Assessment in some courses. Nowadays, most professors are implementing Assessment in their courses in an autonomous way concerning tools and teaching methods used. The project has shown a great advance in both qualitative and quantitative aspects. This paper describes, in a qualitative way, the results achieved by some professors during the experience of implementing Assessment in their courses. Different methods of the assessment implementation are presented, and some preliminary conclusions about the usage of the assessment in our School of Engineering are drawn.
The Engineering School of the Universidad del Norte, which is formed by Civil, Electrical, Electr... more The Engineering School of the Universidad del Norte, which is formed by Civil, Electrical, Electronic, Industrial, Mechanical and Systems Engineering, is working on an assessment project in order to improve the quality of engineering education. The assessment project was initiated during the second semester of 2005 by some professors of the School of Engineering. This year all of the engineering faculty will apply a customized model which will collect information about the assessment that each professor applies in his/her class. This model will be utilized in all engineering courses. It uses a computational tool in order to collect and process information about the level and sequence of student learning. This process will help the faculty to measure the level of achievement of students with regard to the learning objectives in each course. These results will allow the faculty to identify weaknesses in the learning process of the students during the semester and take corrective measures.
One of the major challenges of the School of Engineering of Universidad del Norte has been to gua... more One of the major challenges of the School of Engineering of Universidad del Norte has been to guarantee an education of quality to its alumni. In the last few years professors from different engineering disciplines have been implementing the Assessment project in the everyday teaching. This project is being implemented by stages. In the first stage, the learning objectives of each engineering program as well as the objectives on each course were reviewed and reformulated, and their outcomes were formulated. In this phase, the alumni profiles were reformulated from the competence approach. In the next stage, a part of the faculty implemented the Assessment in some courses. Nowadays, most professors are implementing Assessment in their courses in an autonomous way concerning tools and teaching methods used. The project has shown a great advance in both qualitative and quantitative aspects. This paper describes, in a qualitative way, the results achieved by some professors during the experience of implementing Assessment in their courses. Different methods of the assessment implementation are presented, and some preliminary conclusions about the usage of the assessment in our School of Engineering are drawn.
The Engineering School of the Universidad del Norte, which is formed by Civil, Electrical, Electr... more The Engineering School of the Universidad del Norte, which is formed by Civil, Electrical, Electronic, Industrial, Mechanical and Systems Engineering, is working on an assessment project in order to improve the quality of engineering education. The assessment project was initiated during the second semester of 2005 by some professors of the School of Engineering. This year all of the engineering faculty will apply a customized model which will collect information about the assessment that each professor applies in his/her class. This model will be utilized in all engineering courses. It uses a computational tool in order to collect and process information about the level and sequence of student learning. This process will help the faculty to measure the level of achievement of students with regard to the learning objectives in each course. These results will allow the faculty to identify weaknesses in the learning process of the students during the semester and take corrective measures.