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FLASH GVILI, INBAL E., WEISSBURG, MARC J., YEN, JEANNETTE, HELMS, MICHAEL E., TOVEY, CRAIG A. |
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International Journal of Engineering Education; 2016, Vol. 32 Issue 1A, p123-135, 13p |
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The key intended learning outcome of interdisciplinary engineering courses and programs is the development of students' ability to integrate knowledge known as integrated understanding. Still, there are only few examples of assessment tasks designed to deliberately assess this attribute in engineering education, and little is known about how to develop credible scoring rubrics that can assess integrated understanding promoted by specific interdisciplinary courses. In this paper we offer an operational definition of integrated understanding developed based on the literature. We also present a method for designing credible scoring rubrics for course-specific integrated understanding based on this definition. Our process establishes the rubric's validity through aligning course learning objectives with the rubric criteria and reliability through involving course teachers who often come from different disciplinary backgrounds in developing performance-level descriptions. We tested the method by applying it to design a rubric for evaluating integrated understanding in an interdisciplinary undergraduate elective course in Biologically-inspired Design. The resulted rubric was used to grade students' reports (n = 27) by the course teachers who came from disciplines as varied as Biology and Engineering. Reliability calculated through Intra-Class Correlation (ICC) was good to excellent with regard to all criteria. The rubriccan thus be reliably used by the course teachers to draw valid conclusions regarding progression in students' integrative understanding in their course. Additionally, this method can be used to establish credible scoring rubrics for evaluating students' integrated understanding following participation in other interdisciplinary engineering courses. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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