2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Student Self-Assessment: A Method to Improve Students’ Engagement

Presented at Engineering Economy Division (EED) Technical Session

The problem addressed in this study was the need to determine if student self-assessment could be used as a learning activity to support student engagement in a course. The primary purpose of the study was to examine the use of student self-assessment to enhance learning. Over 350 engineering economics students from three cohorts of Nine (9) sessions participated in the study. After submitting their homework to the professor, students were given the homework answer keys and were asked to grade their own works. A questionnaire was administered at the end of the semester to collect additional data on students perception on the self-assessment exercise. The result of the study suggests a positive correlation between the TA grades and the students self-assigned grades. Results also show that when self-assessment does not count towards the students’ final grade, the average grade assigned by the TA was consistently higher than the average grade assigned by the students. Even though the students’ acknowledged self-assessment helps them engage in the course and potentially improve their grades, the results indicate that they will only do that with an incentive.

Authors

Dr. Robert A. Baffour University of Georgia
Dr. Nathaniel Hunsu University of Georgia [biography]

Nathaniel Hunsu is an assistant professor of Engineering Education. He is affiliated with the Engineering Education Transformational Institute and the school of electrical and computer engineering at the university. His interest is at the nexus of the res
Dr. Eliza A Banu University of Georgia [biography]

Dr. Eliza Banu has a Bachelors degree in Electrical Engineering from Polytechnic University of Bucharest and completed her Ph.D. program in Mechanical Engineering at Auburn University in 2014. She is serving at the editorial assistant for the Journal of S
Adel W. Al Weshah http://orcid.org/https://0000-0001-5314-0478 University of Georgia [biography]

Dr. Al Weshah is a lecturer in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering in the College of Engineering at the University of Georgia. He is also affiliated with the Engineering Education Transformational Institute (EETI). His engineering educational research interests include remote labs and developing innovative instructional materials and techniques.
Dr. Barbara Norton McCord P.E. University of Georgia [biography]

All three degrees are in Mechanical Engineering. I have worked in various places in industry for about 10 years, plus some academic research. I have taught for twenty after that. I am currently a full-time lecturer at University of Georgia.
Marguerite Carol Brickman University of Georgia

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