The Achievement of Program Outcomes from the Perspective of CSED, UKM Final Year Students: Part 1-Session 2005/2006

Abstract

An exit survey was held by the Department of Civil and Structural Engineering (CSED), Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, Bangi on the aspects achievements of programme outcome (PO) based on the outcome based learning approach (OBL), from the perspective of 2005/2006 session final year students of Civil and Structural Engineering and also Civil and Environmental Engineering programmes. The final year students of 2005/2006 session were exposed to the learning approach since 2004/2005 session. The programme outcome was also measured and assessed within the subject of KH4203 Final Year Project II and KH4213 Engineering Design. This exit survey serves the purpose of obtaining opinions and impressions for each of the programme outcome from each of the students themselves rather than the evaluations given by the lecturers. By taking the views and perspectives of the final year students into account, continuous quality improvement (CQI) can be carried out. This paperwork contains the methods involved in investigating the matter and final analysis of this research. It is found that the perception of the students themselves differ from the measures and evaluations given by the lecturers.