Challenges of engineering program and student learning assessment

This chapter discusses the specification limits for learning quality and provides control charts to present the contribution of courses to the program educational objectives. It assesses learning and its quality as an act of assigning a qualitative or quantitative merit to the level it has been achieved by a student. The quantitative information consists of numerical data; hence, the learning performance of a student is determined by the tests or questionnaires. The chapter examines the assessment of student’s learning levels for which the numerical scores were directly related to students’ learning objective. An accurate assessment of an engineering program is one of the difficult tasks in the whole process of learning and teaching process. An engineering student at the application level of learning has the ability to use the learned material in new, concrete situations. A multicriteria decision-making approach can support an engineering program to make decision for its quality level and student’s learning level.