Conference Session

Engineering Physics and Physics Division Technical Session 4

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Jessica Patricia Conry, Arkansas Tech University; Amber Harrington, Arkansas Tech University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Physics and Physics

(ANSAC) and Engineering Accreditation Commission (EAC),respectively. These programs follow an “Introduce, Reinforce, Master” curriculum map as partof the assessment plan where each student learning outcome (SLO) is assessed in at least threecourses of different levels, so that each SLO is assessed at each of the three levels (introduced,reinforced, and mastered). We seek to effectively assess, at the introductory level, the proposedANSAC SLO (5) and the new EAC SLO (4) with a series of case studies and a rubric in ourintroductory physics course. There are two primary difference between the SLOs from the twocommissions. Firstly, the EAC requires that the students recognize while the ANSAC requiresthat the students understand ethical and