Course evaluation for low pass rate improvement in Engineering education
- Authors: Ouahada, Khmaies
- Date: 2019
- Subjects: Education , Engineering , Evaluation
- Language: English
- Type: Article
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10210/404695 , uj:33951 , Ouahada, K. 2019: Course evaluation for low pass rate improvement in Engineering education.
- Description: Abstract : A course evaluation is a process that includes evaluations of lecturers’ teaching performances and their course material moderations. These two procedures are usually implemented, whether officially by the faculty of engineering or by lecturers’ own initiatives, to help identify lecturers’ strengths and weaknesses and the ways forward to improve their performances and their qualities of teaching. This paper presents different ways of implementing these two criteria from students’ and professionals’ perspectives. Official questionnaires from the faculty of engineering, personal questionnaires using Google surveys, Moodle and special designed forms have been used for moderation and evaluations. The process of evaluation is the core of a feedback procedure followed by universities in order for them to monitor the teaching quality of their staff. Satisfactory results show that such a process can improve the lecturers’ teaching performances, courses material quality, students’ satisfaction and performances, and finally the pass rate of the class.
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Outcome-based module for continuous assessments in engineering education : case study department of electrical and electronic engineering science at the University of Johannesburg
- Authors: Ouahada, Khmaies
- Date: 2016
- Subjects: Education , Engineering , Assessments
- Language: English
- Type: Conference proceedings
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10210/216558 , uj:21521 , Citation: Ouahada, K. 2016. Outcome-based module for continuous assessments in engineering education : case study department of electrical and electronic engineering science at the University of Johannesburg.
- Description: Abstract: A big challenge for all engineering universities is the high quality of their graduated students to match the professional engineering qualities that industry need. In South Africa, the Engineering council of South Africa (ECSA) always asked for proof of evidence that students have demonstrated their capabilities to pass all the knowledge areas in each one of their modules in their engineering degree curriculum. The department of electrical and electronic engineering science at the University of Johannesburg has introduced a new continuous assessment framework based on outcomes in the offered modules. This framework allows for a deeper assessment of knowledge. Advantages and disadvantages of this new assessment scheme are discussed in this paper as well as the solutions proposed to make it a flexible and successful for all students.
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