Assessment of Course Outcomes (COs) in University affiliated engineering programs - case study of Course Outcome attainment

Abstract

Outcome-based education (OBE) has become a necessity to make our engineering graduates employable and globally acceptable. OBE is an educational theory that bases each part of an educational system around goals (outcomes). It is expected that after graduation, each student should have achieved the basic purpose of education i.e. necessary skills to work in his/her area of specialization/interest. The assessment is crucial factor in the OBE, as the success of OBE lies in the continuous assessment of the goals and implementing the changes based on the feedback of assessment. This paper discusses the Course Outcomes and its importance in the assessment of Program Outcomes and Program Education Objectives. The authors have presented a case study of Course Outcome assessment and attainment method implemented in their own institute. The course outcome assessment method along with direct assessment and indirect assessment tools, with the detail mathematical calculations is explained with the example values. The results of Course Outcome attainment are used by the staff members for the attainment of POs, PEOs and for improving the overall teaching learning process.