A Student-centered Feedback Control Model of the Educational Process
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ABET 2000 requires new approaches to quality control and continuous improvement in engineering programs. It is instructive to analyze this control in terms familiar to the engineering community and to consider the implications for classroom and program level practices. A common approach to program assessment is to monitor student and graduate success statistically. This is analogous to using statistical process control with the educational program as the process and students as the inputs and outputs. It can identify problems but not suggest solutions. An alternative approach is to view the student as the process and performance on program outcomes as the output. This is more in keeping with ABET 2000 and other outcomes-based education movements and suggests using feedback control as a means to achieving consistent output. This paper models the changes required by ABET 2000 in terms of process control and points out consequences for assessment and instruction. Feedback control of learning as a student-centered process both explains why certain instructional and assessment techniques are “best practices” and requires a significant departure from traditional methods. The program itself can be viewed as a control mechanism, which guides continuous improvement.
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