Location: EV1 241
Notes: Open to faculty and staff (registration is required)
This talk presents a “success story” of sorts to encourage dialogue around current and best practices for identifying individual members of Capstone Design Project teams who are failing to competently contribute to the technical components of the project. Starting in Fall 2014, the Department of Systems Design Engineering has required each of its 4A/4B students to submit Individual Accountability Logs (ALs), which is the student’s own report with evidence of their contributions to the team project. ALs, in combination with panel exams and inputs from peers and advisers, have allowed us to build a process for identifying struggling and failing students who might otherwise pass due to social loafing (self-imposed or forced).
We provide insights into three iterations of Accountability Logs along with grading rubrics as an assessment tool used between 2014 and 2017. We describe the decision-making and recovery options for students assigned failing grades to the Capstone course. We will also present plans to use a modified approach with other design courses, since ALs with the Canadian Engineering Accreditation Board (CEAB) Graduate Attributes for Life Long Learning by capturing the student’s own accounting and reflection on technical contributions, personal learning, and risk-management for project progress.
Facilitator: Carolyn MacGregor (Systems Design Engineering)
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