Structured Evaluation of Laboratory Course Content for Better Attainment of Program Outcomes

Abstract Assessment methods play a vital role in the process of implementation of OBE. Assessment methods must be aligned with the intended learning outcomes. The methods adopted for evaluation should help the learners to progress and the learning experience should be validated by achieving the learning outcomes systematically. Therefore, the proper assessment of laboratory course content is demonstrated by considering Power Electronics Laboratory course which is usually offered at the pre final year of Electrical and Electronics Engineering Undergraduate Program. The traditional pedagogy practiced till now was ineffective in assessing the laboratory experiments in terms of conduction, analysis of results, documentation and open ended experiments [4-5]. This has led to the poor attainment of Program Outcomes (PO) as the evaluation methods followed and the design of rubrics did not support the PO attainment. To take care of the aforementioned issue, the laboratory assessment was categorized into different modules like demonstration or conduction, analysis of results, documentation and open ended experiments. This division will help in addressing the POs pertaining to both technical and professional.