Workshop for Emerging Accreditation Systems

This workshop focuses on developing accreditation criteria, defining accreditation processes, and structuring and maintaining participation from key constituents: professionals, institutions, industry and government representatives.

Faculty Workshop For Emerging Accreditation Systems

Utilizing presentation and interactive exercises, this workshop focuses on preparing faculty for program accreditation using outcomes-based criteria. The goals of the workshop are to develop an awareness and understanding of outcomes-based accreditation; develop an awareness of the fundamentals of assessment; share ABET’s implementation experience; exchange best practices and lessons learned; and provide opportunity to discuss the implications for the emerging system to implement a similar approach.

Topics covered include the following:

• Basic information about ABET, Inc
• ABET’s paradigm shift to outcomes-based accreditation
• Continuous Quality Improvement (CQI) fundamentals
• Engineering Criteria
• Implementation challenges
• Fundamentals of assessment
• Decision making
• Lessons learned and constituent feedback

Faculty Workshop on Assessing Program Outcomes

Utilizing presentation and interactive exercises, this workshop focuses on preparing faculty to develop and implement continuous program improvement plans within their programs.

Topics covered include the following:

• Introduction to assessment plan cycle

• Developing measurable performance criteria

• Writing scoring rubrics

• Simplifying curriculum mapping

• Reviewing and selecting assessment tools

• Developing efficient processes

• Reviewing an assessment-planning matrix

• Reporting results

Upcoming Workshops

There are no international workshops scheduled at this time.