A Process Model for Mapping Course Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

Abstract

In recent past several higher education programmes are adopting outcomes based education (OBE) to address the technical developments and challenges effectively and efficiently. The essential element in OBE of any programme is Programme Outcomes (POs). Several courses are aggregated to address the POs of any programme. Many programmes in engineering education Invariably concentrating on achieving prescribed by accreditation bodies. In this context Course Outcomes (COs) play major role as it is must for developing the assessment of student learning. To achieve this there is a need for proper mapping of courses to POS. Hence a metlkklology for mapping CO to PO based on key elements is provided in this paper highlighting the importance Of each PO. In our methodology we evaluate the attainment of POs, which indeed based on the COs attainment considering the data from the results obtained by the students in various test items. The methodology is validated using the case study on the course taken from computer science. Further the methodology is highly useful in attainment of POs for improving POs which in turn improve the engineering programme vision and mission.