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Educational Objectives,
Outcomes, and our Friends
from ABET
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Steve Barrett
Overview
Blooms Taxonomy
Educational Objectives
Educational Outcomes
Our friends at ABET
Blooms Taxonomy
More than one type of learning3 domains
Cognitive: development of intellectual skills
Affective: manner in which we deal with things
emotionally (feelings, values, attitudes)
Psychomotor: physical movement,
coordination, motor-skill areas
Bloom developed taxonomy (hierarchy) of
Cognitive learning skills
Allows educators to evaluate learning of
students systematically [Bloom, 1994]
Blooms Taxonomy
of Cognitive Learning Skills
Evaluation
Higher
Thought
Processes
Synthesis
Analysis
Application
Comprehension
Knowledge
Blooms Taxonomy
Higher thought processes
List
State
Calculate
Solve
Blooms Taxonomy
Analysis: breaking things down into their
elements, formulating theoretical explanations
or mathematical or logical models for observed
phenomena
Derive
Explain
Formulate
Make up
Design
Blooms Taxonomy
Evaluation: making and justifying value
judgments or selections from among
alternatives
Determine
Select
Critique
Educational Objectives
Characteristics of graduates a few years after graduation
Difficult to assess and measure
Program Objectives for Electrical (Computer) Engineering
Graduates of the University of Wyoming Electrical Engineering Program
will:
(EE-OB1) Have breadth of fundamental knowledge in mathematics,
basic sciences, and engineering as well as depth of knowledge in
electrical (computer) engineering.
(EE-OB2) Be able to communicate effectively within and outside their
discipline and work effectively with others.
(EE-OB3) Be able to understand and resolve ill-defined problems.
(EE-OB4) Be effective independent learners.
(EE-OB5) Have the broad general education needed to appreciate the
role of engineering in the societal context and appreciate the
importance of ethics in the practice of the profession.
ABET/EAC
Our friends at ABET
EC2000
University and
College
Guidance
Department
Objectives,
Outcomes
"Moving
Forward",
report cards
feedback to
administration
Curricula
curriculum
improvements
advisory
boards
Course
Objectives
long term
loop
data collection,
analysis, and
interpretation
feedback for
improvement
faculty
short term
loop
References
S. Goel and N. Sharda, What do engineers want? Examining
engineering education through Blooms Taxonomy, 15th
Annual Conference for the Australian Association for
Engineering Education, AaeE2004, Sep 2004, Toowoomba,
Queensland Australia
S. Goel, What is High About Higher Education? The National
Teaching and Learning Forum, Volume 13, Number 4, 2004
R.M. Felder, R. Brent, The ABCs of Engineering Education:
ABET, Blooms Taxonomy, Cooperative Learning, and So On,
Session 1375, Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for
Engineering Education Conference and Exposition, Salt Lake
City, UT, June 2004.
Benjamin S. Bloom in Blooms Taxonomy: A Forty-Year
Retrospective, edited by L.W. Anderson, University of Chicago
Press, 1994.