Collection

2018 ASEE Conferences - Conference for Industry and Education Collaboration / San Antonio proceedings

Authors

Gretchen Mosher

disciplines and warrantfurther study with a larger sample of ET students.While student GPA at graduation is a valid measure of how students perform in the classroom,not all learning is best measured by a graded, quantitative scale. To measure classroomperformance in a “non-graded” way, the “seriousness of purpose” measure was conceptualized.The measure is intended to evaluate the student’s ability to apply what he or she has learned inan open-ended and practical way. In engineering and ET fields, the senior capstone course iswhere theory and practice collide, so assessing students on their capstone performance is alogical way to measure classroom performance. The qualitative measure of “seriousness ofpurpose” provides an alternative way to measure