ERIC Number: EJ1129823
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Publication Date: 2017
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Meta-Assessment in a Project-Based Systems Engineering Course
Wengrowicz, Niva; Dori, Yehudit Judy; Dori, Dov
Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, v42 n4 p607-624 2017
Project-based learning (PBL) facilitates significant learning, but it poses a major assessment challenge for assessing individual content knowledge. We developed and implemented an assessment approach and tool for a mandatory undergraduate systems engineering PBL-based course. We call this type of assessment "student-oriented" meta-assessment. Research participants included 131 undergraduate engineering students who carried out team projects requiring conceptual modelling of complex systems. Next, individual students assessed their peer team projects. Finally, the course staff assessed students individually, based on the content knowledge that was reflected in students' comments to their peers, by using the new meta-assessment tool. The research findings validated the meta-assessment tool which can serve for assessing various PBL courses. Our contribution is twofold: a new approach for assessing project-based undergraduate engineering courses, and classification of meta-assessment methods into three types, where a student-oriented meta-assessment as one of the three meta-assessment methods is our newly introduced and validated method.
Descriptors: Student Projects, Teaching Methods, Engineering Education, Undergraduate Students, Evaluation Methods, Student Evaluation, Teamwork, Peer Relationship, Peer Evaluation, Statistical Analysis, Scoring Rubrics
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
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Language: English
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