A Systematic Automation of Direct Assessment of Outcomes Attainment in Outcome Based Education

Outcome Based Education (OBE) is a well established method of teaching/learning in modern engineering education. Continual Quality Improvement (CQI) is at the heart of OBE system that ensures the curriculum, Course Outcomes (CO), Program Outcomes (PO) and Program Educational Objectives (PEO) are periodically updated so that the program is well aligned with the expectations from engineers in professional world. To implement such an effective and ever-updating system successfully, the importance of an automated outcomes evaluation method is undeniable. To this aim, an effective automated outcomes evaluation algorithm with different methods of calculating CO attainment is proposed in this paper. Since Microsoft (MS) Excel is the most commonly used platform for record keeping and grading, the proposed algorithm is implemented in MS Excel. The academics of the department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering (EEE), East West University (EWU) are currently using the beta version of the tool wherein the algorithm is implemented.