2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

This work presents a novel assessment modality for an introductory electrical engineering course. The assessment is a deep dive into a topic in the class, which opposes the traditional breadth-based examination. The deep dive is a multi-day, take-home assessment, where students can choose one of several prompts, thus allowing for multiple means of expression as per Universal Design for Learning (UDL) principles. Furthermore, this method allows students to show comprehension at the highest levels of Bloom's Taxonomy, by creating and analyzing in a minimally-constrained setting, both in time and direction. To assess the efficacy of the proposed assessment modality, the author examines the tool's fairness and its ability to test knowledge. The findings demonstrate that this is a viable tool for assessment.