ABET Program Educational Objectives Proposed Assessment Method

Abstract

ABET accreditation is very important award that every institution in the USA and abroad would love to seek and the program educational objectives continuous improvement plan should be carefully constructed and executed [1, 2, 3]. Mapping the student learning outcomes to the program educational objectives is a complex process [4, 5, and 6]. To improve the process of program educational objective assessment the idea of student portfolio has emerged [7, 8, 9, and 10]. In this paper, a new approach to program educational objectives assessment will be presented. This approach will establish a strong mapping between the program educational objectives and the student learning outcomes; it is an improvement on previous processes that were discussed in literature on this topic [11, 12, 13, 14, and 15]. 2. THE PROCESS