Demystifying Continuous Improvement in Program Assessment

Webinar Description

Join ASEE and ABET in a conversation addressing some of the questions and misconceptions that arise regarding continuous improvement in program assessment (which relates to Criterion 4 ABET compliance), including:

• What are “appropriate, documented” processes?
• How many data are “enough”?
• Why can averaging be ineffective?

This webinar, facilitated by Jenny Amos (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign), will provide an overview of the assessment process and allow you to evaluate your own program assessment plan against best practices. Please note that this session assumes attendees have some experience with an ABET-oriented continuous improvement process.

Jenny Amos
Teaching Professor, Bioengineering
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Jenny Amos is a Teaching Professor in Bioengineering at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. She is a AIMBE Fellow, BMES Board of Director Member, ABET Commissioner, two-time Fulbright Specialist in engineering education and has won multiple awards and recognitions for her teaching and scholarship of teaching. Outside of BME, she has also worked to revolutionize the future of graduate medical education serving as a founding member of the new Carle-Illinois College of Medicine, a first-of-its-kind engineering driven college of medicine. At Carle-Illinois, Amos served as the founding Director of Student Assessment and Quality Officer. Amos is part of the Illinois NSF RED (Revolutionizing Engineering & Computer Science Departments) research team leading efforts to innovate assessment practices for engineering toward producing more holistic engineers. Amos has a decade’s worth of experience leading curriculum reform implementing robust assessment strategies at multiple institutions.

If you have questions, please contact webinars@asee.org.