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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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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/). |
spellingShingle | Article Saeed, Saqib Almuhaideb, Abdullah M. Bamarouf, Yasser A. Alabaad, Dina A. Gull, Hina Saqib, Madeeha Iqbal, Sardar Zafar Salam, Asiya Abdus Sustainable Program Assessment Practices: A Review of the ABET and NCAAA Computer Information Systems Accreditation Process |
title | Sustainable Program Assessment Practices: A Review of the ABET and NCAAA Computer Information Systems Accreditation Process |
title_full | Sustainable Program Assessment Practices: A Review of the ABET and NCAAA Computer Information Systems Accreditation Process |
title_fullStr | Sustainable Program Assessment Practices: A Review of the ABET and NCAAA Computer Information Systems Accreditation Process |
title_full_unstemmed | Sustainable Program Assessment Practices: A Review of the ABET and NCAAA Computer Information Systems Accreditation Process |
title_short | Sustainable Program Assessment Practices: A Review of the ABET and NCAAA Computer Information Systems Accreditation Process |
title_sort | sustainable program assessment practices: a review of the abet and ncaaa computer information systems accreditation process |
topic | Article |
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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