The Achievement of Program Outcomes from the Perspective of CSED, UKM Final Year Students: Part II-Session 2006/2007

Abstract

An exit survey aspects of the program outcomes (PO) based on outcome-based education (OBE) approach from the perceptions of final year students of Civil and Structural Engineering Program and Civil and Environmental Engineering Program 2006/2007 session was conducted by the Department of Civil and Structural Engineering (CSED), Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, Bangi. The survey was first conducted at the departmental level in the 2005/2006 session. It aims to seek views and perceptions of achievement of each PO from the student's own perceptions compared with the assessment made by the lecturers. By measuring the perception of final year students, continuous quality improvement (CQI) can be done. This is important to the process of accreditation programs in the CSED. This paper contains a survey on methodology and findings of the study analysis. Comparison across gender, academic achievement and programs are carried out to see the difference on the performance pattern of PO from these aspects. The survey found that the performance of PO from the perception of students is good and there was an increment from the previous session.