Paper Info
Title
ACAT: A Web-Based Software Tool to Facilitate Course Assessment for ABET Accreditation
Abstract
There are several institutions that accredit educational programs and require documentation to ensure that an educational program regularly meets certain criteria. This paper focuses on ABET program. They require that programs show student achievement and certain course outcomes. Documentation of this requirement is particularly burdensome. There is no standard method of generating these reports, so each institution handles it differently. This might involve manual collection of the data which is time very consuming. A software tool that facilitates this collection of the data and automatically generates the required reports would save institutions time and money. This paper presents such a tool, named ACAT (ABET Course Assessment Tool), it is a web-based application designed to assist in the collecting of data and generation of standardized assessment reports. This paper focuses on design and usability aspects of the proposed ACAT tool and provides implementation and operation details.
Year
DOI
Venue
2010
10.1109/ITNG.2010.224
ITNG
Keywords
Field
DocType
outcome-based learning,software tool,accredit educational program,certain criterion,abet accreditation,web-based software tool,abet course assessment tool,accreditation,facilitate course assessment,courseware,user interfaces,educational courses,proposed acat tool,acat,institutions time,software tools,abet program,web interface,student achievement,certain course outcome,user interface development,manual collection,assessment,internet,educational programs,educational program,databases,data analysis,servers,information technology,maintenance engineering,documentation,web based applications
Software engineering,Computer science,Information technology,Usability,Software,Accreditation,Web application,Educational program,Documentation,User interface
Conference
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
978-1-4244-6270-4
3
0.84
References 
Authors
1
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Eugene Essa130.84
Andrew Dittrich271.80
Sergiu Dascalu336279.10
Frederick C. Harris Jr.454778.86