Evaluation practices of learning outcomes that promote culture of continual quality improvement

Chia Pao Liew, Li Li Lim, Wai Tong Chor, Lih Jiun Yu, Jully Tan

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Abstract

Engineering schools and faculties in Malaysia normally adopt analytical tools to assess students' attainment of program outcomes. These tools are often sophisticated and emphasized only on the tabulation and display of data. The process stops short in promoting meaningful continual quality improvement actions for their programs. Literature review revealed that schools and faculties often failed to perform a meaningful analysis of students' outcomes and presented ambiguous plans on the utilization of data for continual quality improvement. In this study, the authors would demonstrate some practices in the measurement and evaluation of outcomes, which results in effective continual quality improvement actions with sustainable efforts from program owners. Analysis and discussion were carried out on the documents related to quality improvement from two higher learning institutions complemented with an analytical tool known as Engineering Outcome Analytics developed by Tunku Abdul Rahman University College. It was demonstrated that an effective outcomes-based education measurement system focuses on practicality where educators are more readily to expend efforts on assessment and evaluation of outcomes, creating a culture of continual quality improvement (CQI) rather than having a sophisticated measurement system that requires enormous data entries. The study is expected to benefit engineering educators and program owners in designing or improving their existing analytical tools to address the continual quality improvement requirements stipulated by the Engineering Accreditation Council (EAC) by highlighting the shortcomings that can be avoided and best practices that can be adopted.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationRegional Conference in Engineering Education (RCEE) and Research in Higher Education (RHEd) 2020
EditorsYudariah Mohammad Yusof, Mitra Mohd Addi, Khairiyah Mohd Yusof, Fatin Aliah Phang
PublisherAmerican Institute of Physics
Number of pages7
ISBN (Electronic)9780735443907
Publication statusPublished - 26 Oct 2022
EventRegional Conference in Engineering Education 2020 - Johor Bahru, Malaysia
Duration: 29 Sept 202030 Sept 2020
Conference number: 8th
https://aip.scitation.org/toc/apc/2433/1 (Proceedings)

Publication series

NameAIP Conference Proceedings
Volume2433
ISSN (Print)0094-243X
ISSN (Electronic)1551-7616

Conference

ConferenceRegional Conference in Engineering Education 2020
Abbreviated titleRCEE 2020
Country/TerritoryMalaysia
CityJohor Bahru
Period29/09/2030/09/20
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Keywords

  • continual quality improvement
  • culture of CQI
  • OBE analytical tool
  • outcomes-based assessment

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