Work in Progress: Assessing Student Acquisition of Knowledge of Learning Objectives for an Interprofessional Projects Program

The Interprofessional Projects Program (IPROreg) at our university provides a multi-disciplinary, project team based course required of all undergraduates which helps develop in these students various knowledge and skills deemed essential by ABET and future employers. This knowledge and skill, defined from our course learning objectives [LO], are competency in teamwork, communications, project management and ethical behavior, developed in the context of addressing a real world problem. Through this research, we are assessing whether or not students that participate in an IPRO course gain a more thorough understanding of the declarative knowledge supporting comprehension of the Learning Objectives by administering a knowledge test to each IPRO student both at the beginning and at the end of each semester. It is beneficial to evaluate methods to measure the knowledge acquisition related to specific skills and behavior as described by learning objectives and defined competencies related to those Learning Objectives