Design of an objective assessment tool to evaluate students' basic electrical engineering skills : the OSTE

Guillaume Alinier, N. Alinier

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    Abstract

    This report discusses the developmental stage of a Higher Education Academy (HEA) – Engineering Subject Centre project which concerns the designing of an objective assessment tool to evaluate students’ basic electrical engineering skills. The form of assessment is based on the principle of Objective Structured Clinical Examination (OSCE), which is an assessment method already widely adopted in healthcare education. Since it is being used in a different field, this form of
    OSCE has been named Objective Structured Technical Examination (OSTE). The approach used to develop the exercises included in the OSTE will be discussed.
    This project will ultimately look at the effectiveness of this method of finding out the basic engineering abilities of a group of students and how it could be used to gear teaching towards any important or specific weaknesses that are discovered among the group.
    Original languageEnglish
    Pages (from-to)57-63
    JournalJournal for the Enhancement of Learning and Teaching
    Volume3
    Issue number1
    Publication statusPublished - 2006

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