A PROPOSAL TO BROADEN THE CDIO SELF-EVALUATION MODEL

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A PROPOSAL TO BROADEN THE CDIO SELF-EVALUATION MODEL

J. Kontio (2008).  A PROPOSAL TO BROADEN THE CDIO SELF-EVALUATION MODEL. 13.
2008 4th International CDIO Conference, Hogeschool Gent, Belgium
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The quality of education is a very relevant topic in the field of education. The quality should also be measured in some reasonable way. The CDIO initiative provides a self-evaluation model to analyze the CDIO adoption level. The adoption level is analysed in relation to 12 standards. The evaluation should be documented in detail to make sure that the chain from evaluation to improvements is valid.

The CDIO evaluation model is very simple and easy to use and learn. However, the evaluation results are very simplified. Therefore, this paper proposes how the original evaluation model can be broadened to give more power to the analysis. The proposed extension is a model describing an innovation process in organizations.

Furthermore, this paper shows an example of one evaluation round at the Turku University of Applied Sciences. The examples show that the evaluation functions quite well. The extended evaluation model provided valuable information for focusing on the development actions.

Finally, even though CDIO initiative is not a quality assurance tool, it certainly is a package that has a positive influence on the quality of higher education. Hopefully the proposed extension can support this continuous improvement process. 

Authors (New): 
Juha Kontio
Pages: 
13
Affiliations: 
Turku University of Applied Sciences, Turku, Finland
Keywords: 
Program evaluation
Innovation process
CDIO
Diffusion of innovations
Year: 
2008
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on December 8, 2018 - 13:43   Tyrone Machado
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