National Conference on Outcomes Assessment for Engineering Education

美国工程教育学会(ASEE)将与工程与技术认证委员会(ABET)合作，举办一次为期两天的全国会议，以促进在理解和实施工程教育认证成果评估方面取得进展。这次会议将于1997年9月19日至20日在华盛顿特区举行，将汇集高等教育机构、行业、政府、专业协会和认证机构的代表，以完成六件事：增加对高等教育评估国家趋势的了解；审查牙科和数学等其他学科的评估进展，以了解哪些评估可能与工程有关；审查行业中可能与教育评估相关的评估做法；增加对认证中结果评估目标的理解；促进最佳评估做法的传播和分享；并为继续举办工程教育结果评估论坛奠定基础。ASEE向国家科学基金会申请49,500.00美元，以支持对工程教育评估进展的审查，这也将向广泛的工程教育受众提供关于各种评估战略的信息。NSF为这次会议提供的资金将用于筹备费用、演讲者的旅行费用、准备好的论文和材料的传播以及摘要报告和会议记录。

The American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE), in cooperation with the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET), will hold a two-day national conference to promote progress in understanding and implementing outcomes assessment for accreditation in engineering education. The meeting, which will take place September 19-20, 1997, in Washington, D.C., will bring together representatives of higher education institutions, industry, government, professional associations and accrediting agencies to accomplish six things: increase understanding of national trends in higher education assessment; examine progress in assessment in other disciplines such as dentistry and mathematics to understand what may be relevant to engineering; review assessment practices in industry that may be relevant to educational assessment; increase understanding of the goals of outcomes assessment in accreditation; promote dissemination and sharing of best assessment practices; and lay the groundwork for a continuing forum on outcomes assessment in engineering education. ASEE requests $49,500.00 from the National Science Foundation to enable this review of progress in engineering education assessment that will also provide information on a variety of assessment strategies to a broad engineering education audience. NSF funding for this conference will provide for set-up costs, travel costs of the speakers, dissemination of prepared papers and materials, and a summary report and proceedings.