CREATION OF AN ACTIVE LEARNING ENVIRONMENT AND OBJECTIVE EVALUATION OF GENERIC SKILLS AT NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, SENDAI COLLEGE

National Institute of Technology (KOSEN), Sendai College (Sendai KOSEN) established the educational goal to foster students with global mindset, creativity and GENERIC SKILLs. In order to achieve this goal, we have developed a curriculum incorporating AL and PBL, reconstruction of the educational environment implementing AL and PBL, and ability development of teachers. As a result, the proportion of subjects that introduced AL reached 83.7% at the end of academic year 2017. In order to evaluate the effectiveness of our reconstruction of educational method, we conducted PROG test to evaluate student's GENERIC SKILLs in an objective way. As for a GENERIC SKILLs growth characteristic of the students of Sendai KOSEN, it turned out that the literacy skills of students grew steadily every year regardless of the grade of the students. On the other hand, the competency skills were not developed apparently until the third grade, but the certain growth was observed after the fourth grade. In this paper, we introduce the outline of educational environment refurbishing in Sendai KOSEN