Draft Rubric 4.28.2009
Guide to Rating ABET Professional Skills Washington State University College of Engineering and Architecture and the Center for Teaching, Learning and Technology
Stakeholders
Ethics
Issue ID/Resolution
Name:_____________________________ Date: ______________ Type of Student Work:__________________ Check one: Faculty ___ Student ___ Professional in Field ___ Instructions: a) Read and discuss the ABET skill definitions and criteria below with your rating group. b) Skim the student work without making written comments to get a sense for how the student group addressed the ABET skill(s). c) Review the student work again, marking passages where the skill(s) are exhibited, for example, “3f.” A given passage may exhibit more than one skill simultaneously. d) Circle descriptors in the criteria below that express how well the student work as a whole exhibit a given skill, such as ABET Skill 3f, “Students clearly frame the professional challenge and embedded issues.” e) In the comment boxes, note the rationale for your rating. For example, “S7 did well on identifying professional challenges (score of 4), but the student group did not build on her ideas,” or “The group did very well (score of 5) at framing the main issue, but did not link it to ethical considerations (score of 1), so I averaged these to a score of 3 on Skill 3f.” ABET Skill 3f. Understanding of professional and ethical responsibility Students clearly frame the issue(s) raised in the scenario and begin the process of resolution. Students identify related ethical considerations, such as health and safety, fair use of funds, and doing “what is right” for all involved. Students discuss who they would need to communicate with to most effectively address the issue(s) (e.g., stakeholders: residents, workers, administrators, the public, etc.). 1 ‐ Absent 2 ‐ Emerging 3 ‐ Developing 4 ‐ Competent 5 ‐ Effective 6 ‐ Mastering Students do not identify or Students begin to frame the issue, Students clearly frame the professional summarize the issue. although key details are glossed over. challenge and embedded issues. Students discuss one or more Students develop appropriate, concrete approaches to resolve the issue. approaches to resolve the issue. Students do not identify related Students show some recognition of Students clearly identify relevant ethical ethical considerations. relevant ethical considerations, but considerations and address them in don’t adequately address them in proposed approaches to resolve the issue. proposed approaches to resolve the issue. Students do not consider Students may consider perspectives of Students thoughtfully consider stakeholder positions on the one or more stakeholders, but do not perspectives of diverse stakeholders. issue, focusing only on their own discuss how they might communicate perspectives or that of the with these parties. Students discuss how they might client. communicate with stakeholders. Comments: ©2009—College of Engineering and Architecture and the Center for Teaching, Learning, & Technology Washington State University www.ctlt.wsu.edu
Draft Rubric 4.28.2009
Group Discussion Skills
ABET Skill 3g. Ability to communicate effectively Students work together to address the issues raised in the scenario by acknowledging and building on each other’s ideas to come to consensus. Students invite and encourage participation of all discussion participants. Note: The ABET communication outcome includes several forms of communication, such as written and oral presentation. This definition focuses on group discussion skills. 1 ‐ Absent 2 ‐ Emerging 3 ‐ Developing 4 ‐ Competent 5 ‐ Effective 6 ‐ Mastering Students pose individual Students try to balance everyone’s Students encourage participation from all opinions, without considering input and build on/clarify each other’s group members, generate ideas together, other student’s ideas. ideas. and actively help each other clarify ideas. Some students may monopolize Students attempt to reach consensus, Students work together to reach a or become argumentative. but have some difficulty in developing consensus in order to clearly frame the approaches that consider multiple professional challenge and develop Students opt to follow the most perspectives equitably. appropriate, concrete approaches to dominant voice. resolve the problem. Comments:
Context/Impact
ABET Skill 3h. Understanding of the impact of engineering solutions in global, economic, environmental, and cultural/societal contexts Students also consider the context’s impact on their understanding of the problem/issue(s) and their proposed approaches to resolve the issue(s). Students should address all relevant contexts (see the following page) to receive a high score. 1 ‐ Absent 2 ‐ Emerging 3 ‐ Developing 4 ‐ Competent 5 ‐ Effective 6 ‐ Mastering Students give little or no Students consider other contexts, Students examine and weigh the impact consideration to the impact their recognizing that their proposed of their approaches on all possible design approaches will have on approaches have implications for other contexts, and reach consensus on the contexts beyond meeting the stakeholders beyond the client/sponsor. best approach possible in relation to all needs of the client/sponsor. stakeholders. Students revisit and revise their Students fail to consider how Students consider how other contexts understanding of the problem/issue(s) ethical, global, or cultural, etc. impact their understanding of the and the parameters. contexts will influence the problem/issue and their proposed proposed approaches. approaches. Students examine and weigh the impact of all pertinent contexts to determine the best approach. Comments: ©2009—College of Engineering and Architecture and the Center for Teaching, Learning, & Technology Washington State University www.ctlt.wsu.edu
Draft Rubric 4.28.2009 Contexts Global: Students relate the issue or proposed approaches to larger global issues (such as globalization, world politics, etc.). Economic: Students relate the issue or proposed approaches to trade and business concerns (such as project costs). Cultural/Societal: Students relate the issue or proposed approaches to the needs of local, national, or ethnic groups affected by the issue. Environmental: Students relate the issue or proposed approaches to local, national or global environmental issues (such as ozone depletion).
Contemporary Issues
Sources/Knowledge Gaps/Biases
ABET Skill 3i. Recognition of the need for and ability to engage in life‐long learning Students consider what needs to be learned (what they know and don’t know), create a plan to retrieve and organize data and evidence. Students address biases and assumptions related to this data. 1 ‐ Absent 2 ‐ Emerging 3 ‐ Developing 4 ‐ Competent 5 ‐ Effective 6 ‐ Mastering Students do not consider outside Students acknowledge outside sources, Students seek and evaluate outside sources of data/evidence, or these and demonstrate some ability to discern sources (possibly including personal sources are seen as irrelevant to fact from opinion. experience). the topic. Students identify what they don’t know Students identify what they still need Students do not differentiate as well as what they do know. to know and methods for obtaining between what they do and do not that information. know. Students surface their own biases and assumptions, as well as those in one or Students sufficiently analyze the Students do not recognize their two sources, but do not consider how impact their own biases and own biases or assumptions, or they may impact their resolution of the assumptions may have on their those in sources. problem/issue sufficiently. resolution of the problem/issue. Comments: ABET Skill 3j. Knowledge of contemporary issues Students consider contemporary issues in their discussion, identification of the problem/issue(s) and possible approaches. 1 ‐ Absent 2 ‐ Emerging 3 ‐ Developing 4 ‐ Competent 5 ‐ Effective 6 ‐ Mastering Students do not consider any Students show some recognition of Students clearly understand the import contemporary issues. contemporary issues, as well as how they of considering contemporary issues might relate to their understanding of and address them in their proposed the problem/issue(s) and impact their approaches. proposed approaches. Comments:
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