Assessment

SURVEYS


There are 26 projects in this section.
1.
Alumni Survey Report Summary 1999
2. Columbia Survey for Engineering Employers
3. Columbia University Alumni Survey
4. Columbia University Senior Survey
5. Cooper Faculty Survey for Freshman Design
6. Cooper Student Survey for Freshman Design
7. Cooper Union�s Survey for Corporate Recruiters
8. Drexel Freshman Design Survey � Final Report
9. Drexel Freshman Design Survey � Oral Presentation
10. Drexel Freshman Design Survey � Problem Definition
11. Drexel Freshman Design Survey � Proposal
12. Faculty Review Survey
13. Fundamentals of Engineering Design Survey Forms
14. Gateway Faculty Instructional Technology Survey.
15. NJIT Alumni Survey
16. NJIT Employer/Supervisor Survey
17. NJIT General Employer Survey
18. NJIT Portfolio Review
19. NJIT Quality Process Survey
20. NJIT Senior Survey
21. NJIT Student Survey
22. Poly Faculty Survey
23. Student Review Survey
24. Team Developer
25. Team Developer Sample Student Report
26. Team Developer Sampler

Related Resources

1. Alumni Survey Report Summary 1999
Contact Name: Martha Zola Organization: New Jersey Institute of Technology
The subsequent life activities of its graduates are among the most important outcomes of NJIT�s educational performance.� The mission of NJIT includes preparation of students for careers and life-long learning, and evidence that these objectives have been met can only be captured after the educational experience has been completed.� Strategies in use by the University for assessing alumni performance include employer surveys, graduating student surveys, and alumni surveys.� This report summarizes results of the alumni survey conducted in fall 1999.� Alumni from all schools and colleges of the university, and alumni graduating in 1997, 1998, and 1999 are included.

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2. Columbia Survey for Engineering Employers
Organization: Columbia University
A brief one page survey that engineering departments can distribute to those companies that employ graduates of engineering programs.

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3. Columbia University Alumni Survey
Contact Name: Jack McGourty Organization: Columbia University
The Columbia University Alumni Survey provides an example of the types of questions that an institution can ask graduates of their programs. In this survey, several topics are included including specific learning outcomes, career path and advanced education data, and interest in future participation as mentors. The section on learning outcomes provides a useful example on how to support the measurement of ABET EC2000 student learning outcomes.

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4. Columbia University Senior Survey
Organization: Columbia University
This sample survey from Mechanical Engineering provides an example of how departments and programs can customize a short survey for seniors soliciting learning outcome data.

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5. Cooper Faculty Survey for Freshman Design
Contact Name: Gerardo Del Cerro Organization: The Cooper Union
The purpose of this assessment is to afford faculty and their students an opportunity to review and evaluate the acquisition and demonstration of specific knowledge, skills, and abilities. This review takes place at the conclusion of each phase of the Freshman Design Project. The faculty member�s assessment is recorded on this review form. A copy of the completed evaluation is given to the student team as additional feedback on their performance.

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6. Cooper Student Survey for Freshman Design
Contact Name: Gerardo Del Cerro Organization: The Cooper Union
This short survey provides students the opportunity to reflect on the knowledge, skills, and abilities that that they have acquired and practiced during the Freshman Design Course offered at Cooper.

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7. Cooper Union�s Survey for Corporate Recruiters
Contact Name: Gerardo Del Cerro Organization: The Cooper Union
This survey is used in conjunction with the interviews that visiting corporate recruiters have with students on campus. It provides an external perspective on whether Cooper Students are being adequately prepared to interview for engineering careers.

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8. Drexel Freshman Design Survey � Final Report
Contact Name: Nihat Bilgutay Organization: Drexel University
The purpose of this survey is to afford faculty and their students an opportunity to review and evaluate the acquisition and demonstration of specific knowledge and skills. This instrument measures the students� knowledge and skills in relation to the Final Report phase of the Freshman Design Project.

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9. Drexel Freshman Design Survey � Oral Presentation
Contact Name: Nihat Bilgutay Organization: Drexel University
The purpose of this survey is to afford faculty and their students an opportunity to review and evaluate the acquisition and demonstration of specific knowledge and skills. This instrument measures the students� knowledge and skills in relation to the Oral Presentation phase of the Freshman Design Project.

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10. Drexel Freshman Design Survey � Problem Definition
Contact Name: Nihat Bilgulaty Organization: Drexel University
The purpose of this survey is to afford faculty and their students an opportunity to review and evaluate the acquisition and demonstration of specific knowledge and skills. This instrument measures the students� knowledge and skills in relation to the Problem Definition phase of the Freshman Design Project.

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11. Drexel Freshman Design Survey � Proposal
Contact Name: Nihat Bilgutay Organization: Drexel University
The purpose of this survey is to afford faculty and their students an opportunity to review and evaluate the acquisition and demonstration of specific knowledge and skills. This instrument measures the students� knowledge and skills in relation to the Proposal phase of the Freshman Design Project.

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12. Faculty Review Survey
Contact Name: Jack McGourty Organization: Drexel University
This Faculty Review Survey is an example of the type of instrument being used by many of our faculty involved in freshman design courses. This specific example is a survey that faculty advisors at Drexel use to evaluate and provide feedback to student teams in the final phase of the freshman design project.

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13. Fundamentals of Engineering Design Survey Forms
Organization: New Jersey Institute of Technology
The New Jersey Institute of Technology has included its Fundamentals of Engineering Design (FED) course into its undergraduate engineering curricula since 1993.� As part of this curriculum revision, we have undertaken surveys of students in the course in order to obtain the feedback necessary to revise the course to improve the student learning experience.� This file contains the survey forms used by NJIT for its FED courses from fall 1999 through spring 2001.

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14. Gateway Faculty Instructional Technology Survey.
Contact Name: Jack McGourty Organization: Columbia University
This comprehensive survey measures faculty use of various instructional technologies in the classroom. Questions focus on faculty level of skill confidence, current and desired usage, and preferred training modalities.

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15. NJIT Alumni Survey
Contact Name: John Carpinelli Organization: New Jersey Institute of Technology
This one page survey is designed to solicit information and feedback from graduates of an institution�s engineering academic programs. Alumni are asked to provide general experience about their engineering program and opportunities to develop specific learning outcomes.

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16. NJIT Employer/Supervisor Survey
Contact Name: John Carpinelli Organization: New Jersey Institute of Technology
This one page survey is designed to solicit information and feedback from key employers of an institution�s graduates. Supervisors are asked to provide information regarding the quality and competency of graduates of the engineering college.

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17. NJIT General Employer Survey
Contact Name: John Carpinelli Organization: New Jersey Institute of Technology
This is a companion survey to their employer supervisor survey. This survey is designed to solicit current opinions regarding what employers, as constituents, feel are the most important knowledge, skills, and abilities that engineering graduates must have as they enter the workforce.

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18. NJIT Portfolio Review
Contact Name: John Carpinelli Organization: New Jersey Institute of Technology
The Portfolio Review demonstrates how a competency-based survey can be used to help faculty to evaluate student portfolios. In this sample, you see how NJIT's Engineering and Humanities faculty evaluate cross-departmental portfolios.

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19. NJIT Quality Process Survey
Contact Name: John Carpinelli Organization: New Jersey Institute of Technology
This short survey is designed to measure the quality of instruction provided at an institution. Quality processes include audio, visual, interaction, and course materials.

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20. NJIT Senior Survey
Contact Name: John carpinelli Organization: New Jersey Institute of Technology
As part of an on-going assessment process, an institution�s engineering seniors are asked to reflect on their academic experiences and future employment and education plans.

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21. NJIT Student Survey
Contact Name: John carpinelli Organization: New Jersey Institute of Technology
As part of an institution�s initiative to continuously improve the educational experience, this short survey may be used to solicit an engineering student�s opinions about their undergraduate education experience.

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22. Poly Faculty Survey
Contact Name: Roger Roess Organization: Polytehnic University
The Faculty Survey, currently being piloted at Polytechnic University, is used to help evaluate curriculum reform and Coalition impact at the institutional level. Again, as in many of our surveys, there is an emphasis on ABET 2000 competencies.

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23. Student Review Survey
Contact Name: Gerardo Del Cerro Organization: The Cooper Union
This Student Review Survey provides an example of how many of our institutions collect feedback from their students regarding how well a specific course has provided ample opportunity to learn and practice certain ABET 2000 - related competencies. The survey you view is what Cooper Union uses in their Freshman Design Course.

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24. Team Developer
Contact Name: Jack McGourty Organization: Columbia University
The Team Developer is an electronic assessment and feedback system designed to help the student grow and develop as a team member by providing a mechanism for 360-degree feedback of all team members. The format enables all team members to communicate concerns, issues, and evaluations in a constructive fashion. The feedback process it fosters helps enhance team member communication and improve team performance. Intended for students, who work on problem-solving teams, group case analyses, or students making team presentations.

Student Guidebook provides background on some key skills needed to be an effective team member. Each chapter addresses a key aspect of team behavior. A sample chapter can be downloaded below. The full student guidebook is currently available from Wiley by using ISBN 0471-403849. The instructor's manual and software is available from the Wiley Website. Please visit: www.wiley.com/college and enter 'Mcgourty' in the search window. Clicking on the title will bring up a description of the project, and clicking on 'Companion Sites -Instructor' will take you to information on the instructor's manual and software. Click here to View PDF Document.

Accompanying Student software provides the student with a sample survey to enhance his or her understanding of the assessment and feedback process. To view the sample program, click to download the zipped file below. After extracting the zipped file, click �run� to start the sample program.Click Here to Download.

A Sample Report is included and discussed to show how to use the program most effectively. Here is a sample of the types of reports that some of our institutions have provided to students as part of the Team Developer overall process.Click Here to View PDF Document

An Instructor�s Manual provides background on using the Team Developer, incorporating teams into class projects, suggested activities to foster teamwork, and complementary team assessment techniques.Click Here to View PDF Document

Instructor�s Presentation Slides provides instructors with resources to support in-class presentations regarding key team behaviors and the Team Developer process.Click Here to View PowerPoint Presentation

Instructor�s Software provides the program that creates the student survey application, tallies student inputs and prints reports. The full administrator�s program may be obtained from John Wiley�s Website: www.wiley.com/college and enter 'Mcgourty' in the search window. Clicking on the title will bring up a description of the project, and clicking on 'Companion Sites -Instructor' will take you to information on the Instructor�s software.

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25. Team Developer Sample Student Report
Contact Name: Jack McGourty Organization: Columbia University
The Team Developer software application and Student Guidebook provides the student with a wealth of information regarding the professional development of skills in the such areas as collaboration, communication, creative problem solving, and self-management. Here is an example of the types of reports that some of our institutions have provided to students as part of the Team Developer overall process.

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26. Team Developer Sampler
Contact Name: Jack McGourty Organization: Drexel University
The Team Developer is a computer-based peer review process that allows students to evaluate each other in a project team environment. The application is quite flexible and has been used by several schools to support the development of multifunctional team skills and other ABET 2000-related competencies. To view the sample click to download the zipped file below. After extracting the zipped file, click "run" to run the sample program. The full program may be obtain from John Wiley and Sons, Publishers.

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