International Conference on Engineering Education – ICEE 2007 Assessment of Program Outcomes by Using (original) (raw)

approach for the assessment of program outcomes in Spring 2005. First, for each outcome, the courses, which substantially contribute, were determined. The faculty was asked to assign specific problems, projects and exam questions that were designed to directly measure the abilities of individual students with regard to a specific outcome. For two years, at the end of each term, the faculty have submitted the normalized grades obtained from the related items contributing to an outcome together with the definition of these items. In order to collect/maintain this data and evaluate achievement levels of the program outcomes, a tool called POMAS (Program Outcomes Monitoring and Assessment System) has been developed. The information kept in the database is used to measure the extent to which each student has fulfilled a certain outcome throughout her/his education based on the contributions of the courses taken. The results obtained gave us a chance to evaluate both the students and the ...