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Program Educational Objectives: What Constitutes Sufficient Assessment?

Author(s) -

John K. Estell,

Stephen Williams

Publication year - 2020

Publication title -

2011 asee annual conference and exposition proceedings

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Conference proceedings

DOI - 10.18260/1-2--18523

Subject(s) - accreditation , educational program , program evaluation , medical education , process (computing) , computer science , cites , management science , psychology , engineering , mathematics , medicine , political science , statistics , law , operating system , fishery , biology

A survey of North American electrical and computer engineering department heads was conducted in 2009 to solicit responses regarding what constitutes sufficient assessment for program educational objectives. The results of this survey indicate that the current views of what constitutes sufficiency by ABET are misguided, resulting in the collection of statistically invalid data, faulty assumptions regarding the causality of a program’s objectives to the career successes of their alumni, and unwarranted citations for shortcomings beyond the control of both program and institution. This paper presents a detailed analysis of the survey responses and provides recommendations to ABET for changes to the accreditation process.

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