Work in progress: Help in finding evaluation instruments for engineering education innovations

This paper describes the first-year progress of a TUES Type 2 project funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) that supports scholarly innovation in engineering education. The project, known as the Appraisal System for Superior Engineering Education Evaluation-instrument Sharing and Scholarship (ASSESS), builds on a precursor NSF CCLI Type 1 project, the Inventory of Evaluation Tools for Engineering Education Projects. The paper reports on the process and framework for developing ASSESS as a sustainable library of superior evaluation instruments that promote scholarly innovation in engineering education. The online database supports information storage, retrieval, and input as well as expert review and user feedback. Adoption research currently being conducted will determine factors that influence broad utilization of the database. Feedback is invited from the community to produce a user-friendly website that enables engineering educators to locate and implement tools that can be used to credibly evaluate the impacts of engineering education innovations.