Outcome Based Education Performance Evaluation on Electrical Engineering laboratory module

Abstract

Implementing Outcome Based Education (OBE) in evaluating program outcomes is a standard practice nowadays at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering (FEE), Universiti Teknologi MARA (UiTM). Previously, laboratory assessments method was merely based only on lab report submitted by each group of students and the procedure is inconsistence as each module consists of different area of electrical engineering fields and involves many lecturers from various disciplines in the FEE. Furthermore, there were no specific guidelines for grading the report and lecturers would rely on their experiences, resulting large variance of judgments in giving the marks. To overcome such problem, an OBE assessment tool known as Laboratory Sensor Performance Evaluation Course Tool (LAB-SPECT) has been designed recently for evaluating laboratory modules. This tool has taken into account additional student's attributes that represents teamwork skill, practical skill and ethical in the lab. With rubrics table provided, it has successfully facilitated lecturers to evaluate students fairly in terms of their Group Related Skills (GRS) besides than the laboratory report. Each of the assessment section in this process is addressing the respective the course outcome (CO) and program outcome (PO). The output plots produced by this tool would be used as indicators for Continual Quality Improvement (CQI) recommendations.