International Conference on Engineering Education – ICEE 2007 Work in Progress – Qualitative analysis of the different assessment implementation methods in a

Abstract- One of the major challenges of the School of Engineering of Universidad del Norte has been to guarantee an education of quality to its alumni. In the last few years professors from different engineering disciplines have been implementing the Assessment project in the everyday teaching. This project is being implemented by stages. In the first stage, the learning objectives of each engineering program as well as the objectives on each course were reviewed and reformulated, and their outcomes were formulated. In this phase, the alumni profiles were reformulated from the competence approach. In the next stage, a part of the faculty implemented the Assessment in some courses. Nowadays, most professors are implementing Assessment in their courses in an autonomous way concerning tools and teaching methods used. The project has shown a great advance in both qualitative and quantitative aspects. This paper describes, in a qualitative way, the results achieved by some professors during the experience of implementing Assessment in their courses. Different methods of the assessment implementation are presented, and some preliminary conclusions about the usage of the assessment in our School of Engineering are drawn