Assessment Info and Suggestions

Assessment Instruments and Course Learning Outcomes

It might feel like an extra task, but CLO/ABET SO assessment can (should) be easily incorporated into the assignments and grading you already do.

1. Select an assessment instrument that corresponds to a CLO associated with an ABET SO assigned to your course (see those here).

   • An assessment instrument is just a problem from an exam, a quiz, a homework or even an entire assignment (anything you like).

2. Set a performance standard (score) for the instrument that you believe constitutes student achievement of the CLO.

   • It is suggested that fundamental/easy task use a score of 90% while a challenging/advanced task should use a standard of 50%. However, this is left up to the instructor's judgement.

   • The % of students meeting or exceeding the performance standard is the "% of student achievement" reported on the ICOS forms. 

3. There are a few tricky/painful, yet very important items.

   • We must separate civil engineering (CE) and environmental engineering (EnE) student performance. That means

     1. Therefore, "% CE student achievement" and "% EnE student achievement" must be reported separately. 

     2. Examples of CE and EnE student work must be retained from the assessment instruments 

        • One (1) high performance, one (1) average/medium, and one (1) low performance example should be saved. 

        • One set of three for CE majors and one set for EnE majors!

Detailed example of an assessment instrument.