ABET: REVISED 2015 - 2016 - Accreditation Policy and Procedure Manual

ABET Cloud Based Assessment 

AEFIS is a Cloud Based Service that allows Engineering Departments at Major Universities the Ability to Capture, Analyze, Edit and Automate any and all information related to the ABET Accreditation Process - its web based, so its a simple low cost automated system that can be Accessed + edited - by any Authorized Person - Anywhere - at Any Time - on Any Device.  more info

Value: Cloud Based / Automated - ABET Assessment
It also eliminates the enormous inefficient use of time and money spent by the faculty and staff of most engineering colleges prepping for ABET Certification Audits more 

Increase Engineering Program - Performance
Automating the Assessment Process Frees Up significant time and resources amongst the Engineering Education Staff allowing you to reallocate the resources where they will provide your university with its greatest value + that is spent Improving the Engineering Program Curriculum as well as the performance of instruction and student learning.

Increase Rankings / Enrollment / Student Learning

The automation of the data analysis and reporting identifies improvements that can be made to key teaching and learning processes to quickly increase student learning performance + the ranking of Engineering Schools among similar universities that compete for the same student enrollments.

Interested in a "Pressure Free" - Look at ABET Assessment in the Cloud
- click here 

AEFIS

877.674.3122

Aefis Headquarters

419 South 2nd Street

Philadelphia, PA 19147

www.aefis.com

ABET Accreditation Alert: Engineering Accreditation Commission: Proposed Revisions to Criteria 3 and 5

Engineering Accreditation Commission:
Proposed Revisions to Criteria 3 and 5

EAC Alert: Proposed ABET Changes

ABET's Accreditation Alerts Summarize Important Changes in the Accreditation Criteria and Procedure Manual (APPM)

Requesting Feedback re: Proposed ABET Changes

ABET (EAC) is currently soliciting observations from its constituents. You can send us your comments on these potential revisions through this form.

ABET Cloud Based Assessment 

AEFIS is a Cloud Based Service that allows Engineering Departments at Major Universities the Ability to Capture, Analyze, Edit and Automate any and all information related to the ABET Accreditation Process - its web based, so its a simple low cost automated system that can be Accessed + edited - by any Authorized Person - Anywhere - at Any Time - on Any Device.  more info

Value: Cloud Based / Automated - ABET Assessment
It also eliminates the enormous inefficient use of time and money spent by the faculty and staff of most engineering colleges prepping for ABET Certification Audits more 

Increase Engineering Program - Performance
Automating the Assessment Process Frees Up significant time and resources amongst the Engineering Education Staff allowing you to reallocate the resources where they will provide your university with its greatest value + that is spent Improving the Engineering Program Curriculum as well as the performance of instruction and student learning.

Increase Rankings / Enrollment / Student Learning

The automation of the data analysis and reporting identifies improvements that can be made to key teaching and learning processes to quickly increase student learning performance + the ranking of Engineering Schools among similar universities that compete for the same student enrollments.

Interested in a "Pressure Free" - Look at ABET Assessment in the Cloud
- click here 

AEFIS

877.674.3122

Aefis Headquarters

419 South 2nd Street

Philadelphia, PA 19147

www.aefis.com

ABET Assessment: Choosing Assessment Methods - Video

ABET Assessment: Choosing Assessment Methods

Launch Webinar

Presenter: Gloria Rogers, Ph.D. 

You can download the slides used during the webinar (PDF) for use during the presentation or as a stand-alone summary.

Topics covered in this webinar include:

• Direct methods
• Indirect methods
• Triangulation
• Validity
• Choosing methods

Gloria Rogers, Former Managing Director, Professional Services, ABET

Gloria Rogers is the former Managing Director, Professional Services at ABET.
Rogers serves as a reviewer for the Fulbright Senior Scholars program and was also the editor of a special edition of the 2008 International Journal of Engineering Education. She has been an external evaluator for major science, math, engineering, and technology initiatives and has a developed interactive CD Rom, "Assessment Planning Flowchart," to aid programs in their program assessment plan development. She also serves on advisory boards for the National Science Foundation, American Association of Colleges and Universities, and the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools.
Gloria has organized 13 symposia on program assessment and accreditation that have been attended by over 2,500 engineering educators from 500 institutions around the world. In addition, she has authored 35 assessment-related articles, given more than 100 invited presentations at national and international conferences and facilitated workshops/seminars at over 75 campuses.
In addition to her local and national involvement in assessment and educational reform, she has given invited presentations and workshops in 25 countries around the world including a Fulbright Senior Scholar assignment in Lima, Peru. In 2008, she was named a Fellow of the American Society of Engineering Education for her contributions to the engineering education profession.

ABET 2015 Calendar - Program Assessment - Workshops and Symposiums

ABET is a nonprofit, non-governmental organization that accredits college and university programs in the disciplines of applied science, computing, engineering, and engineering technology. ABET accredits over 3,400 programs at nearly 700 colleges and universities in 28 countries. ABET provides specialized, programmatic accreditation that evaluates an individual program of study, rather than evaluating an institution as a whole.

ABET accreditation, which is voluntary and achieved through a peer review process, provides assurance that a college or university program meets the quality standards established by the profession for which the program prepares its students.

ABET is recognized by the Council for Higher Education Accreditation (CHEA).

ABET 2015 Calendar - Program Assessment - Workshops and Symposiums

Fundamentals of Program Assessment Workshop - Palm Springs, CA

Palm Springs, CA This one-day workshop is for those who are new to program assessment. Location: Palm Springs, CA

Wednesday, April 22 or Saturday, April 25

Advanced Program Assessment Workshop - Atlanta, GA

Atlanta, GA During the Advanced Program Assessment workshop, participants work in small groups to develop an assessment and evaluation framework using sample scenarios and simulations.

Wednesday, April 22 or Saturday, April 25

Fundamentals of Program Assessment Workshop - Atlanta, GA

Atlanta, GA This one-day workshop is for those who are new to program assessment. Location: Atlanta, GA.

April 23 - 24, 2015

2015 ABET Symposium - Atlanta, GA

Atlanta, GA The ABET Symposium is the premier event in quality assurance and innovations in technical education worldwide. It brings together hundreds of leaders in academe, industry, and government, while promoting peer-to-peer and expert interaction around continuous quality improvement and ABET accreditation.


The 2015 ABET Symposium will be held Thursday, April 23, and Friday, April 24, in Atlanta, Georgia. The program will consist of presentations from invited speakers and those selected through an open call for abstracts.

Assessing our Assessing

At our recent ABET Symposium workshop, we asked participants to self-assess their programs' assessment practices. Similarly to any classroom setting, there were a few partakers who were quick to share their institutional efforts and several who shied away from the questions. The group managed to come up with some interesting topics of discussion and open ended questions for their faculty and administrators.

Much of the room admitted that their curriculum mappings and student assessments are planned and warehoused on paper. For most of them, this results in boxes and boxes of hard copies and hundreds to thousands of man-hours for the preparation of an ABET accreditation visit. Although the room had representatives from many different schools, several individuals described analysis packages developed for assessment data. There was no conversation of shared tools or practices. The conference, itself, is meant to be a forum for cross-pollination of ideas and best practices, however, the schools remain trapped in the silo effect. And so we introduced AEFIS to get the conversation forward thinking.

Shifting the conversation from: how data is collected and stored – the logistics of assessment – to the real meat and potatoes of it: what data should we be collecting and how should we use it to improve student learning, got the audience more engaged!

The outcomes that ABET expects from students at the completion of degree programs can be difficult to assess and report on, especially if there is little or unsustainable infrastructure in place. Development of assessments can be trial and error based and begs for collaboration. So we dove right into some assessment activity questions:

How does your institution assess ethical components to report on outcomes/objectives?

• Assessment Measures:
  
  • Scenario based test questions
    
  • Developed case studies
    
  • Field exercise interviews
    

• …How is student performance rated / documented?
  
  • Against a rubric
    

• …How often is such a rubric reviewed / adapted?
  
  • Rarely
    

How does your institution report on Program Educational Objectives?

• Assessment Measures:
  
  • Student certifications post-graduation
    

• …Does this demonstrate success or student learning?
  
  • Open for discussion
    

• …How can we increase our response rates for alumni surveys?
  
  • Open for discussion
    

These and more questions are being posed by institutions as they plan their assessment efforts. And these questions only started the process of assessing our assessing.

We encourage you to review the questions that workshop participants considered. Download a copy of the workshop materials at our website. Please feel free to share your ideas and comments or let us know what questions we should be asking!