Assessment Framework for Capstone Design Courses
Abstract
This paper describes a framework for developing and implementing assessment instruments in
capstone engineering design courses.
The framework provides a structure for aligning learning
outcomes, methods for examining performance related to these outcomes, and providing feedback that improves student learning in these outcome areas. The framework incorporates
three different perspectives—that of the educational researcher, the student learner, and the
professional practitioner. The paper concludes by highlighting which framework components
inform different steps in a methodology currently being used to create sound, broadly-applicable,
and efficient assessment instruments for capstone design courses.
About Publication
Journal
Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference, Chicago, IL, 2006.
Authors
Beyerlein, S., D. Davis, M. Trevisan, K. Harrison, and P. Thompson