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Sustainable Program Assessment Practices: A Review of the ABET and NCAAA Computer Information Systems Accreditation Process

Program outcome assessment is a complex process that demands careful planning and resources in order to accurately assess higher-order thinking skills. A well-defined assessment approach provides detailed insights into program weaknesses and leads to continuous improvement. Whereas a poor assessment...

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Autores principales: Saeed, Saqib, Almuhaideb, Abdullah M., Bamarouf, Yasser A., Alabaad, Dina A., Gull, Hina, Saqib, Madeeha, Iqbal, Sardar Zafar, Salam, Asiya Abdus
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8656515/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34886417
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph182312691
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author Saeed, Saqib
Almuhaideb, Abdullah M.
Bamarouf, Yasser A.
Alabaad, Dina A.
Gull, Hina
Saqib, Madeeha
Iqbal, Sardar Zafar
Salam, Asiya Abdus
author_facet Saeed, Saqib
Almuhaideb, Abdullah M.
Bamarouf, Yasser A.
Alabaad, Dina A.
Gull, Hina
Saqib, Madeeha
Iqbal, Sardar Zafar
Salam, Asiya Abdus
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description Program outcome assessment is a complex process that demands careful planning and resources in order to accurately assess higher-order thinking skills. A well-defined assessment approach provides detailed insights into program weaknesses and leads to continuous improvement. Whereas a poor assessment approach does not reflect the underlying weaknesses and may result in a useless effort. Furthermore, each accreditation body may have a different recommended outcome measurement approach. As a result, academic institutions may make adhoc choices just to satisfy accreditation requirements rather than designing a sustainable measurement approach. On the other hand, the magnitude of huge tasks for satisfying multiple accreditation bodies results in fatigue and mental stress for academic staff. ABET is a well-known international program accreditation body, and NCAAA is a local accreditation body for academic programs in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. In this paper, we have documented that how a sustainable outcome measurement mechanism can be designed to satisfy both ABET and NCAAA requirements. The core contribution of this paper is relevant specifically for academic programs in the Kingdom striving to meet both ABET and NCAAA requirements and is also relevant for all education programs to design an appropriate program assessment approach to ensure a sustainable process to foster better learning among students.
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spelling pubmed-86565152021-12-10 Sustainable Program Assessment Practices: A Review of the ABET and NCAAA Computer Information Systems Accreditation Process Saeed, Saqib Almuhaideb, Abdullah M. Bamarouf, Yasser A. Alabaad, Dina A. Gull, Hina Saqib, Madeeha Iqbal, Sardar Zafar Salam, Asiya Abdus Int J Environ Res Public Health Article Program outcome assessment is a complex process that demands careful planning and resources in order to accurately assess higher-order thinking skills. A well-defined assessment approach provides detailed insights into program weaknesses and leads to continuous improvement. Whereas a poor assessment approach does not reflect the underlying weaknesses and may result in a useless effort. Furthermore, each accreditation body may have a different recommended outcome measurement approach. As a result, academic institutions may make adhoc choices just to satisfy accreditation requirements rather than designing a sustainable measurement approach. On the other hand, the magnitude of huge tasks for satisfying multiple accreditation bodies results in fatigue and mental stress for academic staff. ABET is a well-known international program accreditation body, and NCAAA is a local accreditation body for academic programs in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. In this paper, we have documented that how a sustainable outcome measurement mechanism can be designed to satisfy both ABET and NCAAA requirements. The core contribution of this paper is relevant specifically for academic programs in the Kingdom striving to meet both ABET and NCAAA requirements and is also relevant for all education programs to design an appropriate program assessment approach to ensure a sustainable process to foster better learning among students. MDPI 2021-12-02 /pmc/articles/PMC8656515/ /pubmed/34886417 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph182312691 Text en © 2021 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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Iqbal, Sardar Zafar
Salam, Asiya Abdus
Sustainable Program Assessment Practices: A Review of the ABET and NCAAA Computer Information Systems Accreditation Process
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8656515/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34886417
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph182312691
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