Embedded Affective Assessment

Abstract

This work-in-progress paper provides initial details in an early and ongoing process to embed affective assessment of student development throughout a new engineering program. Assessment of student knowledge, skills, attitudes & values, and behaviors is an important part of course and program assessment. Affective assessment covers the attitudes, values, and behaviors that students develop throughout their undergraduate engineering career. The overarching framework that guides the affective development, and therefore the affective assessment, of undergraduate engineers in this program is the Community of Practice framework. Current status of the affective development and assessment program is shared, including results from an engineering beliefs and identity survey and methods for incorporating the Community of Practice framework into the undergraduate engineering curriculum.