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4.6.4 Evolution of Assessment in a Hierarchical Team Project at Final Year Undergraduate Level
Author(s) -
Ferris Timothy L.J.
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
incose international symposium
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2334-5837
DOI - 10.1002/j.2334-5837.2007.tb02910.x
Subject(s) - class (philosophy) , process (computing) , course (navigation) , mathematics education , computer science , engineering ethics , engineering management , engineering , psychology , artificial intelligence , programming language , aerospace engineering
In a paper published in an earlier INCOSE symposium the author described a final year undergraduate course in systems engineering from the viewpoint of educational rationale. In this paper the various issues confronted in the teaching of this course are described and the changes made to the course and assessment processes in order to promote the outcomes intended by the lecturer are described. Emphasis is placed on changes implemented in 2006 because of some features of these changes which are interesting with respect to the process of developing the concept of writing a coherent description of an intended system by a large class of undergraduate students. The paper discusses difficulties confronted in the assessment processes, and the link between the assessment processes and the student effort in the teaching of this course.