Conference Session

Direct Measures of Student Performance

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

William Carpenter, University of South Florida

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering

Engineering.Assessment of the Effectiveness of The Proficiency Exam ProtocolThe Proficiency Exam Protocol has been found to be an extremely effective tool inenhancing student learning. Results are presented based on a survey given to 70 studentstaking Structures I in Semester II, 2005. In this survey in which 59 students responded,students rated the following activities as to their effectiveness as a learning tool: • The Proficiency Exam Protocol (PEP), • Homework checked for completion but not graded (HC), • Homework that is graded (HG), • Quizzes (Q), • Quizzes where a remake quiz is allowed (QR), and • Pop Quizzes (PQ)The Student’s t test 1 was applied to the data from this survey. When comparing twolearning tools, this paper follows the