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Skills Assessment in Hands-On Learning and Implications for Gender Differences in Engineering Education

A comprehensive course evaluation plan is a helpful tool for the development and revision of new curricula. One component of an evaluation plan is the assessment o f student skill development. This paper describes one type of skills assessment — student self-estimates of skill — in a first-year engineering projects course. The Skills Assessment Inventory for this course was developed by translating the course objectives into six measurement scales. One hundred sixty-two, first-year students completed the Skills Assessment Inventory at the beginning and end of the semester. This paper provides discussion of the significant differences between the pre-test and post-test scores as well as significant differences between genders on the Skills Assessment Inventory scales.