About CDIO - Assessment

Assessment
CDIO is a new and evolving educational reform initiative. It requires continual, thorough assessment to determine what works, what doesn’t, how it can be improved and how it should evolve. In creating CDIO, we included an assessment process, which evaluates individual student learning and faculty teaching as well as the overall impact of the CDIO Initiative.

Assessment procedures allow evaluation of representative sets of the nearly 80 attributes identified in the CDIO Syllabus as important for graduating engineers. Students are responsible for self and peer assessment. Attitudinal change as well as skill progression are assessed.
Many of the tools used to assess performance of individuals and the program are adopted from those of other professions that embrace creativity, design and entrepreneurship. These tools include portfolios and design reviews.

In addition to assessing teaching and learning performance, we assess other aspects of the CDIO Initiative; from curricular change to the impact of purpose-designed facilities. Indeed, students, faculty and staff continually monitor and adjust the program on a multitude of planes.