An Use of Course-Embedded Assessment for Assessing Program Outcomes

According to KEC 2005 of Accreditation Board for Engineering Education of Korea, criterion 2 defines twelve program outcomes which specify the knowledge, skills, and attitudes which students of a program should meet at time of graduation. To demonstrate achievement of program outcomes, target level of outcomes should be established and appropriate tools for assessing those outcomes should be selected used. As program outcomes can be fostered throughout curriculum and each course may have one or more of related program outcomes, we wanted to find a way to use course outcomes to review the extent which program outcomes are achieved through courses at a specific point as a milestone as well as other purposes before graduation. Even though course-embedded assessment except using capstone design course is not proved to be a formal adequate method for assessing program outcomes, we tried to apply course-embedded assessment to work products of a design course and found its possibility to assess program outcomes as a means of reviewing an achievement level of program outcomes.