How to Construct an Assessment System for Engineering Courses

Abstract

Most test items used for engineering courses are application problems with a serial of calculations and logical adjustments. Mistakes of the parent (front) calculations may inherit to their child (rear) calculations. Teachers spend too much time in administering the examination. Therefore, the purpose of this article is to specify how to design and construct an assessment system with partial credit function for the engineering courses. Applying concept-mapping technique along with Petri-Nets and Goldsmith’s closeness index theory, this system can inferential diagnoses in order to investigate examinee’s misconceptions and produce the reasonable scoring for engineering courses.