Title :
Work In Progress - Course Self-Assessments and Performance: How Well Do They Correlate?
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Eng. Technol., Western Washington Univ., Bellingham, WA
Abstract :
A study to see if student self assessments can serve as predictors of student achievement on exams was undertaken for two engineering technology courses: Applied Engineering Statics and Data Analysis and Design of Experiments. Preliminary results indicate that self assessments are not a good predictor, and that students over predict their ability
Keywords :
design of experiments; educational courses; educational technology; engineering education; Applied Engineering Statics; Data Analysis; Design of Experiments; course self-assessments; engineering technology courses; Aggregates; Analysis of variance; Data analysis; Data engineering; Design engineering; Equations; Predictive models; Software maintenance; Systems engineering and theory; US Department of Energy; Assessment;
Conference_Titel :
Frontiers in Education, 2005. FIE '05. Proceedings 35th Annual Conference
Conference_Location :
Indianopolis, IN
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-9077-6
DOI :
10.1109/FIE.2005.1611928
