Understanding and Promoting Argumentative Practices in Educational Contexts

Sylvia Rojas-Drummond
2010 Human Development  
Students learning and assessment towards applying outcome-based education from a productive point of view has become an important issue for ABET accreditation process in King Saudi Arabia. This paper focuses on assessment process with undergraduate students in Electrical engineering at Qassim University. It highlights education strains for communication engineering principles to improve learning practice and introduce more solutions to achieve the outcomes challenge by students. It introduces
more » ... dustrial visit to STC Company to help students to produce conceptual frameworks for learning to be familiar with the new technologies and everyday experience. The concept also has been used to measure the outcomes and discusses the assessment results significantly. The results achieve that soft-skills among most of the students were lacking and this problem needs to be addressed effectively. Finally, it achieves that the impression of the lessons learned depends on the, observations and recommendations that should be made to improve the existing assessments by engineering educators.
doi:10.1159/000288211 fatcat:475w57565nc2pgomgkqqcbo7k4