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A Comprehensive Assessment Strategy for a PBL Environment

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• Volume 3,Issue 6, Nov. 2016

Year:

2016

Type of Publication:

Article

Keywords:

Assessment in PBL, Higher Education, PBL Implementation, PBL Process and Student Engagement, Problem Based Learning

Authors:

• Centea, Dan
• Srinivasan, Seshasai

Journal:

IJIRES

Volume:

3

Number:

6

Pages:

364-372

Month:

November

ISSN:

2349-5219

BibTex:

@article{732, author = "Dan Centea and Seshasai Srinivasan", abstract = "In this paper the authors report a comprehensive assessment strategy developed in consultation with industrial and academic participants for a problem based learning (PBL) course. Specifically, the strategy includes a set of assessment methodologies that are collectively employed to measure specific learning outcomes in a PBL environment. Applying this assessment strategy to a final year engineering course relating to the design of hybrid and electric vehicles it was found that we are able to instill a variety of technical and managerial skills in the undergraduate students.", issn = "23495219", journal = "IJIRES", keywords = "Assessment in PBL, Higher Education, PBL Implementation, PBL Process and Student Engagement, Problem Based Learning", month = "Nov", note = "This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 Creative Commons License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/", number = "6", pages = "364-372", title = "{A} {C}omprehensive {A}ssessment {S}trategy for a {PBL} {E}nvironment", volume = "3", year = "2016", }

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This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 Creative Commons License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/

Abstract:

In this paper the authors report a comprehensive assessment strategy developed in consultation with industrial and academic participants for a problem based learning (PBL) course. Specifically, the strategy includes a set of assessment methodologies that are collectively employed to measure specific learning outcomes in a PBL environment. Applying this assessment strategy to a final year engineering course relating to the design of hybrid and electric vehicles it was found that we are able to instill a variety of technical and managerial skills in the undergraduate students.

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