Work in progress - an evidence-based intervention system to enhance engineering education

Educational assessment using process management approaches is tacitly built upon business models which envision student learning outcomes as product specifications. These approaches often pay insufficient attention to student personality and lifestyle parameters and how these parameters interact with instructional approaches to affect student performance. To complicate matters, student attributes and their interactions with teaching approaches are not fixed and may change within the development of a single student and certainly do change from generation to generation. What is needed is a methodology that allows educators to assess important student parameters, monitor those parameters´ interactions with teaching approaches and provide for timely intervention to ensure superior student learning achievement. The goal of the present work is to develop, test and implement a scalable and transferrable information technology-assisted knowledge management system that monitors important student characteristics and analyzes the impact of those factors on learning in time for effective intervention.