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Int. J. Engng Ed. Vol. 18, No. 2, pp. 208±216, 2002                                                                                 0949-149X/91 $3.00+0.00
Printed in Great Britain.                                                                                                      # 2001 TEMPUS Publications.




Developing Effective Assessment of
Student Professional Outcomes*
DAINA BRIEDIS
Department of Chemical Engineering, Michigan State University, 2527 Engineering Building, East Lansing,
MI 48824, USA. E-mail: briedis@egr.msu.edu
                                                      As engineering programs continue to prepare for evaluation under EC 2000, faculty members are
                                                      experiencing concern over the less well-defined outcomes of Criterion 3 that address lifelong
                                                      learning, the global and societal context of our profession, and contemporary issues. Designing and
                                                      implementing assessment for these outcomes might appear to be a time-consuming and ill-defined
                                                      endeavor. This paper suggests several straightforward classroom strategies that faculty may use to
                                                      begin to develop these outcomes in their students and describes an effective assessment method that
                                                      may be realistically implemented and maintained for the long-term.




                         INTRODUCTION                                                  Second, it will demonstrate the application of an
                                                                                       imbedded assessment tool for the evaluation of
AS IMPLEMENTATION of the requirements of                                               two of these professional outcomes.
the Engineering Criteria 2000 (EC 2000) [1]
becomes the standard for all accredited United
States engineering programs this Fall, faculty                                             DEALING WITH CONSTRAINTS AND
members and administrators justly raise concerns                                                      TENETS
over the costs associated with this effort. Faculty
members already carry substantial workloads and,                                          As a busy faculty, our primary criterion for an
in most institutions, it is ultimately the efforts of                                  `effective' assessment tool was that it should
these busy individuals that will lead to successful                                    require low faculty effort to develop, administer,
implementation of the assessment processes                                             and maintain. In accord with this tenet and after
required by EC 2000. This paper addresses one                                          reviewing the literature, our faculty was reluctant
example of imbedded assessment as a straight-                                          to conduct assessment at all taxonomy levels as
forward means by which to minimize some of the                                         described by Bloom [2]. Further, we endeavored to
costs associated with the sustainable implementa-                                      include the consideration of the constraints on
tion of EC 2000.                                                                       student time and motivation and desired at least
   This article focuses specifically on a few of the                                   a portion of the assessment to be virtually invisible
`student professional outcomes'. Often colloquially                                    to the students.
referred to as the `soft skills', they are included in                                    One solution was to imbed the assessment in our
the ABET-designated Criterion 3 outcomes as:                                           courses, blending it as seamlessly as possible into
. outcome h (global and societal context);                                             the normal classroom activities. The specific
. outcome i (lifelong learning);                                                       approach we used was to define performance
. outcome j (contemporary issues).                                                     indicators for each outcome, refine the indicators
                                                                                       into a set of scoring rubrics, and then incorporate
These less familiar outcomes in particular raise                                       the rubrics into classroom grading sheets. By
some concern among those responsible for their                                         combining the assessment tool with a course grad-
program assessment processes. What meaningful                                          ing sheet and by providing the sheet to the
learning experiences can contribute to the devel-                                      students, we minimized both faculty and student
opment of these outcomes in our students? How do                                       effort. The grading sheets set expectations for
we substantiate attainment of these soft outcomes                                      students, and were used by faculty both for the
in our graduates? What are some reasonable ways                                        purposes of grading and for outcomes assessment
to assess them, even while students are still on                                       [3].
campus? The purpose of this article is twofold.
First it will briefly describe the `outcomes vision'
approach used for the development of the                                                                       GLOSSARY
assessment process in the chemical engineering
program at Michigan State University as we                                               It is reasonable to expect that the assessment
prepared for a 1998 ABET EC 2000 visit.                                                and evaluation processes will differ from one
                                                                                       program to the next. Similarly, the use of assess-
   * Accepted 13 September 2001.                                                       ment terminology is likely to vary from one reader

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Developing Effective Assessment of Student Professional Outcomes                   209

to the next. The following section provides defini-     and significance that the ABET-designated
tions of some of the terms used in this article.        outcomes had for our students and our program.
. Assessment: a system of gathering, analyzing,         Using a brainstorming approach, we sought
                                                        answers to the basic questions, `What does this
  and interpreting evidence to determine how
                                                        outcome mean to us? What behaviors or traits will
  well actual performance matches set expecta-
                                                        be observed in our students who have achieved this
  tions and standards [3]; the main purpose of
                                                        particular outcome? How can these outcomes be
  assessment as required by ABET is to determine
                                                        developed? What are their performance indica-
  the performance of the engineering program [1].
. Program educational objective: a broad state-         tors?' Answers to these questions had considerable
                                                        value in customizing the definitions of the
  ment or statements that describe the goals of
                                                        outcomes for our program.
  the educational program and the expected
                                                           Once we had an initial understanding of the
  accomplishments of graduates during the first
                                                        meaning of the outcomes, our faculty and our
  few years of graduation [4].
. Program outcome: what the department faculty          departmental advisory board (alumni and
                                                        employer constituencies) prioritized to the entire
  intend for students to be able to think, know or
                                                        set of eleven outcomes. As the gatekeepers of the
  do when they have graduated from the program;
                                                        educational program, our faculty felt that not all
  attainment of the outcomes helps realize the
                                                        eleven outcomes contributed equally to the
  achievement of educational objectives.
. Performance indicator: evidence that the desired      achievement of our program objectives. Conse-
                                                        quently, not all eleven outcomes would be
  outcome, or aspects of the desired outcome exist
                                                        weighted equally in our assessment processes.
  [5]. It is what a faculty member can observe and
                                                        This understanding affected several features of
  evaluate to judge achievement of an outcome by
                                                        the assessment strategies including the frequency
  a student.
. Practice or strategy: the classroom practice          at which each outcome was assessed and the
                                                        weight that assessment results carried in deciding
  designed to achieve a specific outcome [6].
. Rubric: an analytical scoring scale in which the      upon program improvements.
                                                           The third step, the review phase, was key in
  observable performance indicators are divided
                                                        enabling the development of a sustainable process
  into different levels of achievement
. Benchmark: a standard of aggregate student            and in limiting the time that faculty and students
                                                        invested in assessment. In this step, we reviewed
  performance against which measured outcomes
                                                        the entire curriculum to inventory existing points
  are compared; a level of expectation.
                                                        of contact with students, i.e. learning opportunities
                                                        and classroom practices, in which some type of
                                                        data was already being collected or where student
     PROCESS DEVELOPMENT APPROACH                       work could be used to contribute to both the
                                                        achievement and evaluation of an outcome. Our
   This section describes the general plan that we      interpretation of the requirements of Criterion 3
used for the design of the assessment process for all   led us to believe that the assessment must be in
of our program outcomes, and is provided largely        large part performance based. Therefore, we were
to set the context for the results that relate speci-   sure to look for projects and student work that
fically to the soft outcomes. The first step was to     required students to apply fundamental knowledge
mobilize key faculty members in order to achieve        and skills and where the nature of the work
the `buy-in' necessary to maintain the processes in     required that the application of these skills be
the long-term. The departmental curriculum              clearly demonstrated and measurable.
committee and an emeritus faculty member                   This resulted in a mapping of each outcome into
became the strategic players in the process. The        courses in our curriculum in which course material
results of their work were regularly reported at        and student learning contributed to the achieve-
faculty meetings to maintain level of awareness         ment of that particular outcome. As predicted by
and to gather additional input and suggestions.         Ewell [7], review of the course outcomes was a
Student input was obtained through their                valuable exercise in suggesting improvement even
membership on the curriculum committee.                 before any assessment data had been gathered.
   The next step was to establish an `outcomes             When the links between outcome and courses
vision'Ðour own perspective on the outcomes             were established, we attempted to identify specific
and their assessment in their role in accomplishing     projects and student work that could be used for
our program educational objectives. The outcomes        assessment. In the case of outcomes h, i and j, more
vision approach included five phases as follows:        thought and research were required to find prac-
                                                        tical opportunities for assessment. In some
1.   Definitions                                        instances, appropriate learning and assessment
2.   Prioritization                                     opportunities did not exist, and additional devel-
3.   Review                                             opment was required. Examples of both casesÐ
4.   Measurement                                        where practices existed and where they did notÐ
5.   Implementation                                     are presented in this paper.
In the definition phase we considered the meaning          The next step was to identify measurement tools
210                                               D. Briedis

that, for the purposes of efficiency, could serve the          HANDLING THE ASSESSMENT
dual purpose not only of assessing outcomes but                CHALLENGE FOR SOFT SKILLS
could also be used in grading. These tools were
used to provide measurable results that could be            The outcomes vision approach proved to be an
traced back into the curriculum to identify possible     effective method for developing assessment
weaknesses in the development of specific                strategies for all of our program outcomes. The
outcomes in our students.                                remainder of this paper describes specific results
   Weaknesses can only be identified relative to a       for the lifelong learning outcome and broad
baseline, so the measured achievement was to be          approaches for the outcome addressing the
compared to the expectations set for each                impact of engineering solutions in a global and
outcome. These expectations, or benchmarks,              societal context.
were first established by faculty and set at levels
that seemed compatible with our program educa-           Lifelong learning
tional objectives and the prioritization of the            Assessment of lifelong learning skills is a logical
outcomes. The first iteration carried with it some       candidate for alumni surveys and the tracking of
measure of uncertainty about the suitability of the      continuing education courses that alumni have
chosen levels. Appropriate adjustments could be          taken. Although valid, these methods do not
made after the subsequent cycles of the assessment       specifically evaluate the learned skills and beha-
process were completed.                                  viors that motivate this outcome and, therefore,
   For example, for the lifelong learning outcome,       provide little guidance for improvement efforts.
the faculty committee suggested that at least 50%        How could we assess this outcome in our students?
of our students should demonstrate a `high' level        The performance indicators that were developed in
of lifelong learning skills, 40% should exhibit at       the definition step of our process provided the
least `average' skills, and the remainder should         answer. Below is an example of our initial list of
achieve the minimal acceptable level. The mean-          performance indicators. It represents a relatively
ing of these levels of achievement and their             broad interpretation of the outward appearance of
quantitative measurement in relation to rubrics          this outcome in our students:
will be described in a later section of this paper.
Although setting of these particular levels of           Performance indicators
expectation might be arguable, they seemed to              In order to be lifelong learners, students should:
represent reasonable initial targets for our
student body. After the first evaluation of              1. Be proficient in the use of a variety of infor-
assessment results, these benchmarks were not               mational and educational media such as tradi-
achieved, and were left as a target for program             tional textbooks, scientific and technical
improvement.                                                journals, the library system as a whole, the
   During the implementation phase, we gained               World Wide Web, and educational software.
additional insight into the route that our assess-       2. Have an understanding of and exposure to the
ment process was taking. We were concerned over             breadth and structure of the professional and
the potential for large amounts of data that would          technical support system that will be available
require analysis in order to properly close the loop        to the students upon graduation; this includes
on our assessment processes. Because of the time            professional and technical societies, the conti-
constraints on faculty, we agreed that assessment           nuing education needed to maintain profes-
could justly be done on the basis of a sampling of          sional relevance, and professional registration
the student population. This was a critical decision        systems.
for our program because our class sizes are typi-        3. Have an awareness of the dynamic, evolving
cally large (b 60 students). Evaluation of assess-          nature of science, engineering, technology, and
ment results by sampling was another timesaving             industry, and an understanding that learning
feature that helped ensure the sustainability of our        does not end with the B.S. degree.
assessment processes.                                    4. Have the ability to learn on their own.
   This approach is supported by Nichols [3] who
                                                         Admittedly these are rather diffuse statements, and
suggests that the aggregated accomplishments of
                                                         some are not easily assessed. However, as a first
the students in the program outcomes are the
                                                         step, they provided a foothold for identifying
primary available reflection of our programs and
                                                         possible classroom practices with which the life-
their results. He further states that `. . . not all
                                                         long learning traits could be developed and eval-
students or graduates need take or respond to all
                                                         uated. Possible opportunities for learning and
means of assessment, since a representative sample
                                                         subsequent demonstration of the outcome were
is sufficient for evaluation of the program.' The
                                                         identified as part of the review step described
sampling approach appears to be indirectly
                                                         earlier with the following results.
supported by ABET policy as well [8] which clearly
                                                            Possible classroom practices/strategies:
states that ABET accredits programs. This implies
that its role does not include accreditation or          1. Assign problems and projects that require ana-
evaluation of individual student performance, but           lysis, synthesis, and evaluation of information
rather the aggregate outcome.                               gathered from a variety of resources including
Developing Effective Assessment of Student Professional Outcomes                        211

     traditional textbooks, scientific and technical           flow and heat transfer course in which, with only
     journals, the WWW, communication with                     minor adjustments in project requirements,
     other professionals, and database software.               student lifelong learning skills could be learned,
2.   Engage students in the discussion of the profes-          practiced, and assessed.
     sional support system that will be available to
     them upon graduation, including professional
                                                               Rubrics
     and technical societies, continuing education
                                                                  In order to use the performance indicators in a
     courses, and professional registration systems.
                                                               practical way, our implementation step required a
3.   Provide examples and encourage active discus-
                                                               further refining of the list into measurable aspects
     sion of the historical progression of a scientific
                                                               of student performance. Figure 1 is a list of the
     principle, an engineering method, or a specific
     technology.                                               rubrics developed for the lifelong learning
                                                               outcome; several literature references were useful
4.   Invite industrial representatives to meet with
                                                               resources in their compilation [9±11]. The rubrics
     students to discuss current trends that are
     affecting their companies and industries.                 were grouped in a fairly simple three-level scale of
                                                               `5' high, `3' average, and `1' low. Since this
5.   Complete at least one problem/project that
                                                               particular outcome did not have an exceptionally
     requires independent learning and the use of
                                                               high priority in achieving our educational objec-
     the tools described in #1 above.
                                                               tives, we felt that three levels of assessment were
This list helped us identify areas where practices             sufficient. The `gaps' (4 and 2) without representa-
needed to be developed; more importantly with                  tive descriptions allowed the faculty members
respect to timesaving, we were able to isolate                 some measure of flexibility in their assessments.
existing practices that could be used for learning             These levels were also consistent with scoring
and assessing. For example, for the lifelong learn-            scales of other assessment tools used in our
ing outcome, we identified a project in our fluid              program evaluation processes.




                                      Fig. 1. Scoring rubrics for program outcome.
212                                                  D. Briedis

   The next step was to imbed the rubrics into a              system must have some relationship to fluid flow,
project or presentation grading sheet (Fig. 2). This          heat transfer, or both. If possible, a mathematical
sheet was used for assigning grades for a required            analysis of the operation of the device or system,
project in our fluid flow and heat transfer course.           including determination of key thermal or fluid
Not all traits described in the general list of rubrics       properties, was to be included in the report. No
were incorporated into the grading sheetÐonly                 class time was spent on the details of the projects
those that were compatible with the nature of the             other than the discussion of the report require-
project were included. In this project, student               ments. The student teams were required to present
teams were asked to conduct independent research,             their results in a written report and as an oral
in which the concepts learned in class were applied           presentation.
to the technical analysis of a device or system. A
list of possible project topics was compiled from a           Assessment procedure
combined list of student and instructor suggestions             In a typical year, our fluid flow and heat transfer
with the only restrictions being that the device or           course serves about 80±90 chemical engineering




                                          Fig. 2. Rubric-based grading sheet.
Developing Effective Assessment of Student Professional Outcomes                          213




                              Fig. 3. Example of outcome level of achievement analysis.


students. The course is four semester credits, and           were averaged for each student in the sample to
includes four `lecture' sessions and one recitation          give a set of student averages for that specific
(discussion) session per week. The students are              outcome (representative results are shown as
divided among several recitation sections to                 Fig. 3 for a sample of 25 students). This step
provide opportunities to work and learn in smaller           required some investment of time, but a student
groups; all recitation sections are held at the same         was hired to gather and compile the data. It should
time of the week. In addition, the course schedul-           be noted that an improvement to this process is
ing is conveniently arranged so that the recitation          being developed wherein the scoring will be done
sections occur immediately following that day's              in the classroom using a laptop computer, and the
lecture session, so that if needed, the instructor           data will be compiled automatically, thus allowing
can utilize a two-hour block of scheduled course             even larger samples to be analyzed. In the mean-
time by combining the lecture section with the               time, student involvement is a hallmark of our
recitations. This time was used over a two- to               assessment processes and helps develop both
three-week period to accommodate all of the                  understanding and a sense of buy-in within this
student presentations.                                       important constituent group.
   Student presentations were graded during class               The compiled data were then compared to the
using the grading sheet presented as Fig. 2. The             levels of expectation, or benchmarks. For the
level of achievement (5 down to 1) was marked by             example results shown on Fig. 3, the averaged
a numeral for each performance indicator directly            student scores were rounded to the nearest whole
on the grading sheet. This system requires the               number and plotted against frequency of occur-
instructors to be familiar with the scoring rubrics          rence. The data analysis shows that the bench-
(Fig. 1). Although some element of subjectivity              marks were not achieved. Thirty-six percent of the
exists, the use of rubrics has, in fact, provided            students (not 50%, as desired) achieved a `high'
greater objectivity to the grading and assessment            level (total of both 5 and 4 scores), 36% (not 40%)
of these types of student projects.                          achieved at an average level, and 16% performed at
   For the purposes of project grading, the instruc-         levels below the acceptable minimum (b 1). The
tor gave a grade based on the level of achievement           results of this analysis were presented as part of an
for each indicator. If all indicators were marked as         overall annual assessment report to the program
a `5', the highest possible score (50 points) was            faculty, the departmental advisory board, and the
assigned. For a mix of levels of achievement, the            program review committee. Decisions on program
instructor assigned a proportional number of                 improvements were made as part of a process
points.                                                      described in a previous paper [12].
   For the separate purposes of assessment, a repre-            In order to improve student skills in lifelong
sentative sample of the grading sheets was photo-            learning, additional learning opportunities were
copied, the student names were removed, and the              provided in other courses. In the chemical engin-
levels of achievement on the indicators relevant to          eering unit operations laboratory course, students
lifelong learning (or any other outcome repre-               were assigned a problem that requires them to use
sented on the grading sheet) were extracted from             the Internet to understand government regulations
the scoring. The levels for all relevant indicators          regarding the use of chemicals in food. In our
214                                                D. Briedis

separations course, students develop a course               outcomes. Since our students do not all participate
supplementÐa collection of papersÐon separ-                 in a formal international studies program, the
ation processes that were not covered in the                initial enticement was to utilize some of the huma-
course materials. The result of these efforts is not        nities and social science courses taken by our
included in this paper.                                     students to develop these outcomes. Several short-
   Other aspects of the lifelong learning skills were       comings were immediately identified with this plan
assessed through other measurements, e.g. the               including the wide variety of humanities and social
participation of students in professional and tech-         science courses taken by our students and the
nical societies was assessed by student response on         resulting difficulty in maintaining systematic
a web-based survey. In addition, the alumni                 assessment of student performance.
survey, which is administered on a five-year                   Coincidentally, the results of our earlier
cycle, requests responses about alumni participa-           outcomes mapping showed weaknesses in the
tion in continuing education and in professional            coverage of several outcomes in our curriculum.
societies. Thus, other complementary assessment             These factors motivated the development of a
tools serve to add to the data that are gathered on         junior-level seminar course, Chemical Engineering
campus and help portray the broader scope of the            as a Profession, a new course that provides oppor-
performance of our students in this area.                   tunity for explicit coverage of the soft outcomes
                                                            and gives ample opportunity for their assessment.
Global and societal context of engineering                  Additional details on this course are provided by
solutions                                                   Briedis and Miller [13].
  The definition of performance indicators for this            The performance indicators that were developed
outcome was less straightforward than for other             for this outcome are outlined as follows.




                                    Fig. 4. Scoring rubric for program outcome.
Developing Effective Assessment of Student Professional Outcomes                               215

Performance indicators                                           development of technology. A chemical engineer-
  In order to be aware of the global and societal                ing colleague (Professor Carl T. Lira) spoke on the
impact of engineering solutions, students should:                cultural and scientific context of the Bhopal
                                                                 disaster. The written exercise also served a dual
1. Recognize the impact of chemical engineering
                                                                 purpose in the evaluation and assessment of
   decisions on the local and global environment,
                                                                 student writing. As in the previous example, the
   community, and economy.
                                                                 assessment results from the student reports were
2. Combine knowledge of potential impacts into
                                                                 coupled with additional assessment data from
   design and problem-solving processes.
                                                                 student design projects (consideration of environ-
3. Be familiar with national and international
                                                                 mental and global impacts) and from alumni
   publications that describe the impact of tech-
                                                                 surveys so as to provide a more complete picture
   nology on society.
                                                                 of student achievement for this professional skills
4. Be familiar with and able to describe the his-
                                                                 outcome.
   torical development of technology in chemical
   engineering.
5. Have a personal perspective on the importance                      IMPROVEMENTS AFTER THE LOOP
   of engineering in today's world.
The practices and classroom strategies developed                   The outcomes vision process was a valuable
for this outcome included the following                          approach that provided our faculty with a critical
possibilities:                                                   review of our curriculum and led to some program
                                                                 improvements even before the collection of assess-
. Students will solve practical engineering pro-
                                                                 ment data had begun. In addition, the grading
  blems in which they consider the impact of the                 sheets that resulted from this process have
  engineering decision on the local and global                   proven to be a convenient, consistent way of
  environment and economy.                                       incorporating assessment into current classroom
. Students will analyze case studies on the actual
                                                                 practices. They have been used extensively and
  environmental, economic, and/or political                      successfully in an NSF-sponsored Multidisciplin-
  impact of past engineering decisions.                          ary Bioprocessing Laboratory course that has been
The rubrics that were developed from these per-                  offered in the Department of Chemical Engineer-
formance indicators are included as Fig. 4. By the               ing over the last three years. The purpose of this
same method used for assessment of lifelong learn-               course is to train students from multiple disciplines
ing, grading sheets were developed for the evalua-               to work effectively in research teams [14]. Wher-
tion of student performance for this outcome. In                 ever they have been used, the grading sheets with
this case, the assessment was done in the junior                 imbedded assessment rubrics have provided the
seminar course where students submitted a written                type of feedback for which they were intended,
discussion of the role of culture in engineering.                and have done so at minimal cost. Real changes
Their discussion was based on their own reading                  have been effected in our courses as a result of the
and on two guest presentations. One guest speaker                program improvement process [13]. The ultimate
from the Michigan State University Department of                 benefactors have been the students in our
Anthropology spoke on the role of culture in                     program.



                                                    REFERENCES

             1. ABET, Criteria for Accrediting Engineering Programs, 2001±2002 Accreditation Cycle,
                Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology, http://www.abet.org.
             2. B. S. Bloom, Taxonomy of Educational Objectives: The Classification of Educational Goals, David
                McKay Company, Inc., New York (1956).
             3. J. O. Nichols, The Departmental Guide and Record Book for Student Outcomes Assessment and
                Institutional Effectiveness, p. 42. Agathon Press, NY (1995).
             4. Definition taken from the ABET Regional Faculty Workshop exercises; not officially approved by
                ABET.
             5. G. M. Rogers and J. K. Sando, Stepping Ahead: An Assessment Plan Development Guide,
                Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology (1996).
             6. J. McGourty, Assessment Workshop: Institutionalizing Assessment and Continuous Improvement,
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             7. P. T. Ewell, National trends in assessing student learning, J. Eng. Ed., 87, pp. 107±113, (1998).
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             9. E. T. Smerdon, It takes a lifetime. ASEE PRISM, p. 56, December, 1996.
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                G. Rogers, Defining the outcomes: a framework for EC-2000. IEEE Trans. Ed., 43(2), pp. 100±110,
                (2000).
            11. D. Briedis, Jump-starting lifelong learning, Proc. of the 1998 ASEE Annual Conf. and Exposition,
                Seattle, WA, June 29, 1998.
            12. D. Briedis, Building the EC 2000 environment. Chem. Eng. Ed., 33(2) pp. 128±133, (1999).
216                                              D. Briedis

      14. D. Briedis and D. J. Miller, Round 1: The curricular aftermath, Proc. of the 1999 ASEE Conf. and
          Exposition, Charlotte, NC, June 20-23, 1999.
      15. R. M. Worden and D. M. Briedis, Teaching bioprocessing in a multidisciplinary laboratory
          setting, 2000 Annual Meeting Amer. Inst. Chemical Engineers, Los Angeles, CA, Nov. 12±17, 2000
          (http://www.egr.msu.edu/che/classes/491).



      Daina Briedis is an Associate Professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering at
      Michigan State University. Dr. Briedis has conducted research in bioadhesion; she is
      currently studying development of effective learning and assessment tools for the multi-
      disciplinary classroom. She is active nationally and internationally in engineering accredi-
      tation and is a member of the Executive Committee of the Engineering Accreditation
      Commission of ABET.

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  • 1. Int. J. Engng Ed. Vol. 18, No. 2, pp. 208±216, 2002 0949-149X/91 $3.00+0.00 Printed in Great Britain. # 2001 TEMPUS Publications. Developing Effective Assessment of Student Professional Outcomes* DAINA BRIEDIS Department of Chemical Engineering, Michigan State University, 2527 Engineering Building, East Lansing, MI 48824, USA. E-mail: briedis@egr.msu.edu As engineering programs continue to prepare for evaluation under EC 2000, faculty members are experiencing concern over the less well-defined outcomes of Criterion 3 that address lifelong learning, the global and societal context of our profession, and contemporary issues. Designing and implementing assessment for these outcomes might appear to be a time-consuming and ill-defined endeavor. This paper suggests several straightforward classroom strategies that faculty may use to begin to develop these outcomes in their students and describes an effective assessment method that may be realistically implemented and maintained for the long-term. INTRODUCTION Second, it will demonstrate the application of an imbedded assessment tool for the evaluation of AS IMPLEMENTATION of the requirements of two of these professional outcomes. the Engineering Criteria 2000 (EC 2000) [1] becomes the standard for all accredited United States engineering programs this Fall, faculty DEALING WITH CONSTRAINTS AND members and administrators justly raise concerns TENETS over the costs associated with this effort. Faculty members already carry substantial workloads and, As a busy faculty, our primary criterion for an in most institutions, it is ultimately the efforts of `effective' assessment tool was that it should these busy individuals that will lead to successful require low faculty effort to develop, administer, implementation of the assessment processes and maintain. In accord with this tenet and after required by EC 2000. This paper addresses one reviewing the literature, our faculty was reluctant example of imbedded assessment as a straight- to conduct assessment at all taxonomy levels as forward means by which to minimize some of the described by Bloom [2]. Further, we endeavored to costs associated with the sustainable implementa- include the consideration of the constraints on tion of EC 2000. student time and motivation and desired at least This article focuses specifically on a few of the a portion of the assessment to be virtually invisible `student professional outcomes'. Often colloquially to the students. referred to as the `soft skills', they are included in One solution was to imbed the assessment in our the ABET-designated Criterion 3 outcomes as: courses, blending it as seamlessly as possible into . outcome h (global and societal context); the normal classroom activities. The specific . outcome i (lifelong learning); approach we used was to define performance . outcome j (contemporary issues). indicators for each outcome, refine the indicators into a set of scoring rubrics, and then incorporate These less familiar outcomes in particular raise the rubrics into classroom grading sheets. By some concern among those responsible for their combining the assessment tool with a course grad- program assessment processes. What meaningful ing sheet and by providing the sheet to the learning experiences can contribute to the devel- students, we minimized both faculty and student opment of these outcomes in our students? How do effort. The grading sheets set expectations for we substantiate attainment of these soft outcomes students, and were used by faculty both for the in our graduates? What are some reasonable ways purposes of grading and for outcomes assessment to assess them, even while students are still on [3]. campus? The purpose of this article is twofold. First it will briefly describe the `outcomes vision' approach used for the development of the GLOSSARY assessment process in the chemical engineering program at Michigan State University as we It is reasonable to expect that the assessment prepared for a 1998 ABET EC 2000 visit. and evaluation processes will differ from one program to the next. Similarly, the use of assess- * Accepted 13 September 2001. ment terminology is likely to vary from one reader 208
  • 2. Developing Effective Assessment of Student Professional Outcomes 209 to the next. The following section provides defini- and significance that the ABET-designated tions of some of the terms used in this article. outcomes had for our students and our program. . Assessment: a system of gathering, analyzing, Using a brainstorming approach, we sought answers to the basic questions, `What does this and interpreting evidence to determine how outcome mean to us? What behaviors or traits will well actual performance matches set expecta- be observed in our students who have achieved this tions and standards [3]; the main purpose of particular outcome? How can these outcomes be assessment as required by ABET is to determine developed? What are their performance indica- the performance of the engineering program [1]. . Program educational objective: a broad state- tors?' Answers to these questions had considerable value in customizing the definitions of the ment or statements that describe the goals of outcomes for our program. the educational program and the expected Once we had an initial understanding of the accomplishments of graduates during the first meaning of the outcomes, our faculty and our few years of graduation [4]. . Program outcome: what the department faculty departmental advisory board (alumni and employer constituencies) prioritized to the entire intend for students to be able to think, know or set of eleven outcomes. As the gatekeepers of the do when they have graduated from the program; educational program, our faculty felt that not all attainment of the outcomes helps realize the eleven outcomes contributed equally to the achievement of educational objectives. . Performance indicator: evidence that the desired achievement of our program objectives. Conse- quently, not all eleven outcomes would be outcome, or aspects of the desired outcome exist weighted equally in our assessment processes. [5]. It is what a faculty member can observe and This understanding affected several features of evaluate to judge achievement of an outcome by the assessment strategies including the frequency a student. . Practice or strategy: the classroom practice at which each outcome was assessed and the weight that assessment results carried in deciding designed to achieve a specific outcome [6]. . Rubric: an analytical scoring scale in which the upon program improvements. The third step, the review phase, was key in observable performance indicators are divided enabling the development of a sustainable process into different levels of achievement . Benchmark: a standard of aggregate student and in limiting the time that faculty and students invested in assessment. In this step, we reviewed performance against which measured outcomes the entire curriculum to inventory existing points are compared; a level of expectation. of contact with students, i.e. learning opportunities and classroom practices, in which some type of data was already being collected or where student PROCESS DEVELOPMENT APPROACH work could be used to contribute to both the achievement and evaluation of an outcome. Our This section describes the general plan that we interpretation of the requirements of Criterion 3 used for the design of the assessment process for all led us to believe that the assessment must be in of our program outcomes, and is provided largely large part performance based. Therefore, we were to set the context for the results that relate speci- sure to look for projects and student work that fically to the soft outcomes. The first step was to required students to apply fundamental knowledge mobilize key faculty members in order to achieve and skills and where the nature of the work the `buy-in' necessary to maintain the processes in required that the application of these skills be the long-term. The departmental curriculum clearly demonstrated and measurable. committee and an emeritus faculty member This resulted in a mapping of each outcome into became the strategic players in the process. The courses in our curriculum in which course material results of their work were regularly reported at and student learning contributed to the achieve- faculty meetings to maintain level of awareness ment of that particular outcome. As predicted by and to gather additional input and suggestions. Ewell [7], review of the course outcomes was a Student input was obtained through their valuable exercise in suggesting improvement even membership on the curriculum committee. before any assessment data had been gathered. The next step was to establish an `outcomes When the links between outcome and courses vision'Ðour own perspective on the outcomes were established, we attempted to identify specific and their assessment in their role in accomplishing projects and student work that could be used for our program educational objectives. The outcomes assessment. In the case of outcomes h, i and j, more vision approach included five phases as follows: thought and research were required to find prac- tical opportunities for assessment. In some 1. Definitions instances, appropriate learning and assessment 2. Prioritization opportunities did not exist, and additional devel- 3. Review opment was required. Examples of both casesÐ 4. Measurement where practices existed and where they did notÐ 5. Implementation are presented in this paper. In the definition phase we considered the meaning The next step was to identify measurement tools
  • 3. 210 D. Briedis that, for the purposes of efficiency, could serve the HANDLING THE ASSESSMENT dual purpose not only of assessing outcomes but CHALLENGE FOR SOFT SKILLS could also be used in grading. These tools were used to provide measurable results that could be The outcomes vision approach proved to be an traced back into the curriculum to identify possible effective method for developing assessment weaknesses in the development of specific strategies for all of our program outcomes. The outcomes in our students. remainder of this paper describes specific results Weaknesses can only be identified relative to a for the lifelong learning outcome and broad baseline, so the measured achievement was to be approaches for the outcome addressing the compared to the expectations set for each impact of engineering solutions in a global and outcome. These expectations, or benchmarks, societal context. were first established by faculty and set at levels that seemed compatible with our program educa- Lifelong learning tional objectives and the prioritization of the Assessment of lifelong learning skills is a logical outcomes. The first iteration carried with it some candidate for alumni surveys and the tracking of measure of uncertainty about the suitability of the continuing education courses that alumni have chosen levels. Appropriate adjustments could be taken. Although valid, these methods do not made after the subsequent cycles of the assessment specifically evaluate the learned skills and beha- process were completed. viors that motivate this outcome and, therefore, For example, for the lifelong learning outcome, provide little guidance for improvement efforts. the faculty committee suggested that at least 50% How could we assess this outcome in our students? of our students should demonstrate a `high' level The performance indicators that were developed in of lifelong learning skills, 40% should exhibit at the definition step of our process provided the least `average' skills, and the remainder should answer. Below is an example of our initial list of achieve the minimal acceptable level. The mean- performance indicators. It represents a relatively ing of these levels of achievement and their broad interpretation of the outward appearance of quantitative measurement in relation to rubrics this outcome in our students: will be described in a later section of this paper. Although setting of these particular levels of Performance indicators expectation might be arguable, they seemed to In order to be lifelong learners, students should: represent reasonable initial targets for our student body. After the first evaluation of 1. Be proficient in the use of a variety of infor- assessment results, these benchmarks were not mational and educational media such as tradi- achieved, and were left as a target for program tional textbooks, scientific and technical improvement. journals, the library system as a whole, the During the implementation phase, we gained World Wide Web, and educational software. additional insight into the route that our assess- 2. Have an understanding of and exposure to the ment process was taking. We were concerned over breadth and structure of the professional and the potential for large amounts of data that would technical support system that will be available require analysis in order to properly close the loop to the students upon graduation; this includes on our assessment processes. Because of the time professional and technical societies, the conti- constraints on faculty, we agreed that assessment nuing education needed to maintain profes- could justly be done on the basis of a sampling of sional relevance, and professional registration the student population. This was a critical decision systems. for our program because our class sizes are typi- 3. Have an awareness of the dynamic, evolving cally large (b 60 students). Evaluation of assess- nature of science, engineering, technology, and ment results by sampling was another timesaving industry, and an understanding that learning feature that helped ensure the sustainability of our does not end with the B.S. degree. assessment processes. 4. Have the ability to learn on their own. This approach is supported by Nichols [3] who Admittedly these are rather diffuse statements, and suggests that the aggregated accomplishments of some are not easily assessed. However, as a first the students in the program outcomes are the step, they provided a foothold for identifying primary available reflection of our programs and possible classroom practices with which the life- their results. He further states that `. . . not all long learning traits could be developed and eval- students or graduates need take or respond to all uated. Possible opportunities for learning and means of assessment, since a representative sample subsequent demonstration of the outcome were is sufficient for evaluation of the program.' The identified as part of the review step described sampling approach appears to be indirectly earlier with the following results. supported by ABET policy as well [8] which clearly Possible classroom practices/strategies: states that ABET accredits programs. This implies that its role does not include accreditation or 1. Assign problems and projects that require ana- evaluation of individual student performance, but lysis, synthesis, and evaluation of information rather the aggregate outcome. gathered from a variety of resources including
  • 4. Developing Effective Assessment of Student Professional Outcomes 211 traditional textbooks, scientific and technical flow and heat transfer course in which, with only journals, the WWW, communication with minor adjustments in project requirements, other professionals, and database software. student lifelong learning skills could be learned, 2. Engage students in the discussion of the profes- practiced, and assessed. sional support system that will be available to them upon graduation, including professional Rubrics and technical societies, continuing education In order to use the performance indicators in a courses, and professional registration systems. practical way, our implementation step required a 3. Provide examples and encourage active discus- further refining of the list into measurable aspects sion of the historical progression of a scientific of student performance. Figure 1 is a list of the principle, an engineering method, or a specific technology. rubrics developed for the lifelong learning outcome; several literature references were useful 4. Invite industrial representatives to meet with resources in their compilation [9±11]. The rubrics students to discuss current trends that are affecting their companies and industries. were grouped in a fairly simple three-level scale of `5' high, `3' average, and `1' low. Since this 5. Complete at least one problem/project that particular outcome did not have an exceptionally requires independent learning and the use of high priority in achieving our educational objec- the tools described in #1 above. tives, we felt that three levels of assessment were This list helped us identify areas where practices sufficient. The `gaps' (4 and 2) without representa- needed to be developed; more importantly with tive descriptions allowed the faculty members respect to timesaving, we were able to isolate some measure of flexibility in their assessments. existing practices that could be used for learning These levels were also consistent with scoring and assessing. For example, for the lifelong learn- scales of other assessment tools used in our ing outcome, we identified a project in our fluid program evaluation processes. Fig. 1. Scoring rubrics for program outcome.
  • 5. 212 D. Briedis The next step was to imbed the rubrics into a system must have some relationship to fluid flow, project or presentation grading sheet (Fig. 2). This heat transfer, or both. If possible, a mathematical sheet was used for assigning grades for a required analysis of the operation of the device or system, project in our fluid flow and heat transfer course. including determination of key thermal or fluid Not all traits described in the general list of rubrics properties, was to be included in the report. No were incorporated into the grading sheetÐonly class time was spent on the details of the projects those that were compatible with the nature of the other than the discussion of the report require- project were included. In this project, student ments. The student teams were required to present teams were asked to conduct independent research, their results in a written report and as an oral in which the concepts learned in class were applied presentation. to the technical analysis of a device or system. A list of possible project topics was compiled from a Assessment procedure combined list of student and instructor suggestions In a typical year, our fluid flow and heat transfer with the only restrictions being that the device or course serves about 80±90 chemical engineering Fig. 2. Rubric-based grading sheet.
  • 6. Developing Effective Assessment of Student Professional Outcomes 213 Fig. 3. Example of outcome level of achievement analysis. students. The course is four semester credits, and were averaged for each student in the sample to includes four `lecture' sessions and one recitation give a set of student averages for that specific (discussion) session per week. The students are outcome (representative results are shown as divided among several recitation sections to Fig. 3 for a sample of 25 students). This step provide opportunities to work and learn in smaller required some investment of time, but a student groups; all recitation sections are held at the same was hired to gather and compile the data. It should time of the week. In addition, the course schedul- be noted that an improvement to this process is ing is conveniently arranged so that the recitation being developed wherein the scoring will be done sections occur immediately following that day's in the classroom using a laptop computer, and the lecture session, so that if needed, the instructor data will be compiled automatically, thus allowing can utilize a two-hour block of scheduled course even larger samples to be analyzed. In the mean- time by combining the lecture section with the time, student involvement is a hallmark of our recitations. This time was used over a two- to assessment processes and helps develop both three-week period to accommodate all of the understanding and a sense of buy-in within this student presentations. important constituent group. Student presentations were graded during class The compiled data were then compared to the using the grading sheet presented as Fig. 2. The levels of expectation, or benchmarks. For the level of achievement (5 down to 1) was marked by example results shown on Fig. 3, the averaged a numeral for each performance indicator directly student scores were rounded to the nearest whole on the grading sheet. This system requires the number and plotted against frequency of occur- instructors to be familiar with the scoring rubrics rence. The data analysis shows that the bench- (Fig. 1). Although some element of subjectivity marks were not achieved. Thirty-six percent of the exists, the use of rubrics has, in fact, provided students (not 50%, as desired) achieved a `high' greater objectivity to the grading and assessment level (total of both 5 and 4 scores), 36% (not 40%) of these types of student projects. achieved at an average level, and 16% performed at For the purposes of project grading, the instruc- levels below the acceptable minimum (b 1). The tor gave a grade based on the level of achievement results of this analysis were presented as part of an for each indicator. If all indicators were marked as overall annual assessment report to the program a `5', the highest possible score (50 points) was faculty, the departmental advisory board, and the assigned. For a mix of levels of achievement, the program review committee. Decisions on program instructor assigned a proportional number of improvements were made as part of a process points. described in a previous paper [12]. For the separate purposes of assessment, a repre- In order to improve student skills in lifelong sentative sample of the grading sheets was photo- learning, additional learning opportunities were copied, the student names were removed, and the provided in other courses. In the chemical engin- levels of achievement on the indicators relevant to eering unit operations laboratory course, students lifelong learning (or any other outcome repre- were assigned a problem that requires them to use sented on the grading sheet) were extracted from the Internet to understand government regulations the scoring. The levels for all relevant indicators regarding the use of chemicals in food. In our
  • 7. 214 D. Briedis separations course, students develop a course outcomes. Since our students do not all participate supplementÐa collection of papersÐon separ- in a formal international studies program, the ation processes that were not covered in the initial enticement was to utilize some of the huma- course materials. The result of these efforts is not nities and social science courses taken by our included in this paper. students to develop these outcomes. Several short- Other aspects of the lifelong learning skills were comings were immediately identified with this plan assessed through other measurements, e.g. the including the wide variety of humanities and social participation of students in professional and tech- science courses taken by our students and the nical societies was assessed by student response on resulting difficulty in maintaining systematic a web-based survey. In addition, the alumni assessment of student performance. survey, which is administered on a five-year Coincidentally, the results of our earlier cycle, requests responses about alumni participa- outcomes mapping showed weaknesses in the tion in continuing education and in professional coverage of several outcomes in our curriculum. societies. Thus, other complementary assessment These factors motivated the development of a tools serve to add to the data that are gathered on junior-level seminar course, Chemical Engineering campus and help portray the broader scope of the as a Profession, a new course that provides oppor- performance of our students in this area. tunity for explicit coverage of the soft outcomes and gives ample opportunity for their assessment. Global and societal context of engineering Additional details on this course are provided by solutions Briedis and Miller [13]. The definition of performance indicators for this The performance indicators that were developed outcome was less straightforward than for other for this outcome are outlined as follows. Fig. 4. Scoring rubric for program outcome.
  • 8. Developing Effective Assessment of Student Professional Outcomes 215 Performance indicators development of technology. A chemical engineer- In order to be aware of the global and societal ing colleague (Professor Carl T. Lira) spoke on the impact of engineering solutions, students should: cultural and scientific context of the Bhopal disaster. The written exercise also served a dual 1. Recognize the impact of chemical engineering purpose in the evaluation and assessment of decisions on the local and global environment, student writing. As in the previous example, the community, and economy. assessment results from the student reports were 2. Combine knowledge of potential impacts into coupled with additional assessment data from design and problem-solving processes. student design projects (consideration of environ- 3. Be familiar with national and international mental and global impacts) and from alumni publications that describe the impact of tech- surveys so as to provide a more complete picture nology on society. of student achievement for this professional skills 4. Be familiar with and able to describe the his- outcome. torical development of technology in chemical engineering. 5. Have a personal perspective on the importance IMPROVEMENTS AFTER THE LOOP of engineering in today's world. The practices and classroom strategies developed The outcomes vision process was a valuable for this outcome included the following approach that provided our faculty with a critical possibilities: review of our curriculum and led to some program improvements even before the collection of assess- . Students will solve practical engineering pro- ment data had begun. In addition, the grading blems in which they consider the impact of the sheets that resulted from this process have engineering decision on the local and global proven to be a convenient, consistent way of environment and economy. incorporating assessment into current classroom . Students will analyze case studies on the actual practices. They have been used extensively and environmental, economic, and/or political successfully in an NSF-sponsored Multidisciplin- impact of past engineering decisions. ary Bioprocessing Laboratory course that has been The rubrics that were developed from these per- offered in the Department of Chemical Engineer- formance indicators are included as Fig. 4. By the ing over the last three years. The purpose of this same method used for assessment of lifelong learn- course is to train students from multiple disciplines ing, grading sheets were developed for the evalua- to work effectively in research teams [14]. Wher- tion of student performance for this outcome. In ever they have been used, the grading sheets with this case, the assessment was done in the junior imbedded assessment rubrics have provided the seminar course where students submitted a written type of feedback for which they were intended, discussion of the role of culture in engineering. and have done so at minimal cost. Real changes Their discussion was based on their own reading have been effected in our courses as a result of the and on two guest presentations. One guest speaker program improvement process [13]. The ultimate from the Michigan State University Department of benefactors have been the students in our Anthropology spoke on the role of culture in program. REFERENCES 1. ABET, Criteria for Accrediting Engineering Programs, 2001±2002 Accreditation Cycle, Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology, http://www.abet.org. 2. B. S. Bloom, Taxonomy of Educational Objectives: The Classification of Educational Goals, David McKay Company, Inc., New York (1956). 3. J. O. Nichols, The Departmental Guide and Record Book for Student Outcomes Assessment and Institutional Effectiveness, p. 42. Agathon Press, NY (1995). 4. Definition taken from the ABET Regional Faculty Workshop exercises; not officially approved by ABET. 5. G. M. Rogers and J. K. Sando, Stepping Ahead: An Assessment Plan Development Guide, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology (1996). 6. J. McGourty, Assessment Workshop: Institutionalizing Assessment and Continuous Improvement, Gateway Coalition (1997). 7. P. T. Ewell, National trends in assessing student learning, J. Eng. Ed., 87, pp. 107±113, (1998). 8. ABET, Accreditation Policy and Procedure Manual, Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology, http://www.abet.org. 9. E. T. Smerdon, It takes a lifetime. ASEE PRISM, p. 56, December, 1996. 10. M. Besterfield-Sacre, L. J. Shuman, H. Wolfe, C. J. Atman, J. McGourty, R. Miller, B. Olds, and G. Rogers, Defining the outcomes: a framework for EC-2000. IEEE Trans. Ed., 43(2), pp. 100±110, (2000). 11. D. Briedis, Jump-starting lifelong learning, Proc. of the 1998 ASEE Annual Conf. and Exposition, Seattle, WA, June 29, 1998. 12. D. Briedis, Building the EC 2000 environment. Chem. Eng. Ed., 33(2) pp. 128±133, (1999).
  • 9. 216 D. Briedis 14. D. Briedis and D. J. Miller, Round 1: The curricular aftermath, Proc. of the 1999 ASEE Conf. and Exposition, Charlotte, NC, June 20-23, 1999. 15. R. M. Worden and D. M. Briedis, Teaching bioprocessing in a multidisciplinary laboratory setting, 2000 Annual Meeting Amer. Inst. Chemical Engineers, Los Angeles, CA, Nov. 12±17, 2000 (http://www.egr.msu.edu/che/classes/491). Daina Briedis is an Associate Professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering at Michigan State University. Dr. Briedis has conducted research in bioadhesion; she is currently studying development of effective learning and assessment tools for the multi- disciplinary classroom. She is active nationally and internationally in engineering accredi- tation and is a member of the Executive Committee of the Engineering Accreditation Commission of ABET.