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PRACTICES FOR QUALITY IMPLEMENTATION OF THE TIDEE “DESIGN TEAM READINESS ASSESSMENT”

Denny Davis, Michael Trevisan, Larry McKenzie Washington State University

Steven Beyerlein University of Idaho

Patricia Daniels, Teodora Rutar, and Philip Thompson Seattle University

Kenneth Gentili Tacoma Community College

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This paper outlines practices that ensure quality in administering, interpreting, reporting, and maintaining the ‘Design Team Readiness Assessment’ developed by the Transferable Integrated Design Engineering Education (TIDEE) consortium in the Pacific Northwest. A copy of the instrument can be downloaded from www.cea.wsu.edu/tidee. The instrument assesses design process, teamwork, and design communication skills in three different contexts. Previous work has demonstrated how to achieve high inter-rater reliability through explicit scoring criteria and decision rules. For this reason, the ‘Design Team Readiness Assessment’ can be used to evaluate the preparation of beginning and mid-level engineering and engineering technology students across institutions and degree programs. Faculty who have implemented the instrument have found it to be a valuable classroom tool, promoting self-awareness of life-long learning skills in a variety of course settings and supporting action research on lower-division design experiences. Their discoveries are summarized here using a framework for assessment literacy that is widely used in the K-12 education community.

ROLE OF EARLY-PROGRAM ASSESSMENT

Representatives of both industry and academia rank design process, teamwork, and communication among the top five capabilities that emerging engineers need to possess 1. In response to such expectations, ABET Engineering Criteria 2000 now requires programs seeking accreditation to not only develop key competency areas such as these, but also to devise methods for assessing achievement and stimulating improvement in supporting skill sets 2. Because these skill sets are multi-faceted and span developmental levels, they are ideally addressed and assessed at multiple points in the curriculum3,4. A special challenge occurs in assessing capabilities of students who transfer among institutions and degree programs during their academic career. This situation, along with a passion for improving the quality of design education, was the challenge that inspired the formation of the Transferable Integrated Design Engineering Education (TIDEE) consortium5.

Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2002, American Society for Engineering Education

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Rutar, T., & Beyerlein, S., & Thompson, P., & McKenzie, L., & Davis, D., & Gentili, K., & Daniels, P., & Trevisan, M. (2002, June), Best Practices In Implementing An Engineering Mid Program Assessment Paper presented at 2002 Annual Conference, Montreal, Canada. 10.18260/1-2--11095