Bloom's taxonomy in the provision of quantity surveying degree programme

Abstract

The last five decades or so ago following the independence, Malaysia have seen a tremendous growth of development within the construction industry. Along with this development came the increasing needs for more qualified personnel and technocrats. The task to provide professional trainings for the required manpower was given to the Higher Education Institutions. Playing this important role, UiTM for one, has since then conducted the Quantity Surveying Programme to cater for the mushrooming construction industry. The purpose of the programme was mainly to generate the number of professionals suitably trained to perform the contract administration works including the technical estimations for construction developments. Nonetheless, educating the adult students is always far more challenging and complex than teaching schoolchildren. Among the important functions of the higher level institutions is to train our future workforce by providing them with the relevant knowledge and skills. For this reason, graduates from the QS programme must be able to meet their professional expectations and challenges of the future. The aim of this paper is to study the important role of Bloom's taxonomy as applied in the higher level institutions specifically for degree programme offered by the Department of Quantity Surveying UiTM. The reviews also explain the relevance between the assessments in the Bloom's taxonomy with the Quantity Surveying degree programme. The findings, would provide the conceptual understanding about the Bachelor of Quantity Surveying (Honours) programme being taught at UiTM. This has to comply with the learning outcomes as stipulated in Bloom's Taxonomy which should also reflect the construction industry's needs.