EFFECTIVELY ASSESSING PROFESSIONAL ENGINEERING SKILLS
Why this work is in the frame
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
This paper outlines the assessment dilemmas and challenges that were experienced by faculty members and students alike during initial iterations of APSC 190 (a first-year, professional engineering skills core course in the Faculty of Applied Science at Queen’s University) and how the adoption and implementation of the ICE model of assessment [1], [2], [3] served to address those challenges. ICE, an acronym for Ideas, Connections and Extensions is based on cognitive/transformation theories of learning similar to those put forth by Biggs’ and Collis’ SOLO taxonomy[4], and describes learning as a process of growth from novice toward expert. Unlike SOLO, ICE was intentionally designed for use in the classroom by teachers and students. The simplicity of the model increases its utility and portability to a host of learning activities and furnishes an accessible vocabulary and framework to facilitate communication about expectations for learning. The paper includes an overview of the ICE model, suggestions for implementation and the effects and limitations of the model for use in professional skills courses. Current-use examples are provided that illustrate the model’s utility and its implications for shaping student learning.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it