Title :
Work in progress - a provisional competency assessment system
Author :
Somerville, Mark ; Chachra, Debbie ; Chambers, Jonathan ; Cooney, Ellen ; Dorsey, Kristen ; Geddes, John B. ; Pratt, Gill ; Rivard, Kathryn ; Schaffner, Ann ; Stein, Lynn Andrea ; Stolk, Jonathan ; Westwood, Stephen ; Zastavker, Yevgeniya
Author_Institution :
Franklin W. Olin Coll. of Eng., Needham, MA
Abstract :
Over the last two years Olin College has been defining and implementing a provisional system to develop and assess student competency levels. The system particularly emphasizes the importance of creating a community of practice that includes not only faculty but also staff and students. In this paper we provide an overview of the design process, and comment on the results of our first year of implementing the system
Keywords :
educational institutions; Olin College; design process; provisional competency assessment system; student competency levels; Accreditation; Best practices; Context; Educational institutions; Portfolios; Process design; Stress; Teamwork; Testing; User centered design; competency assessment; curriculum design; outcomes 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.2005.1612161
