Plotting Direct and Indirect Assessment Radar Charts for an Academic Course following ABET Accreditation System

摘要

The objectives of this paper are to describe in detail the steps to be followed in order to plot. Direct assessment chart for Student Learning Outcomes (SLOs) for an academic course following ABET accreditation system, and Student Indirect Assessment (SIA) for the learning outcomes of the same. Assessments to be followed are those defined by ABET as one of sixteen categories named a to k. Two methods are used to achieve the stated objectives: the first method is done using MS Excel spreadsheet program, while the second one relied on a special tool that was developed by the authors to serve the purpose of plotting Radar Charts for SLOs.