Assessing students' knowledge in first-year electronic engineering laboratory

Students' achievements in knowledge and skills and their change in attitudes would depend on many factors such as the teaching and learning instructions and assessment methods employed by the lecturers, learning environments and students' own efforts and initiatives. In engineering education, laboratory experiments or practical works are integrated in the curriculum to prepare students for engineering experience and practice when they graduated. Laboratory experiments could equip students with knowledge and practical skills and could expose them to relevant engineering field. Using set of test questions, this paper investigates the theoretical knowledge acquired by first year electronic engineering students after they undergo certain laboratory experiments.