The Development of Assessment Process for Undergraduate Students’ Learning Outcomes According to OBE Model

The outcome-based education (OBE) focuses on an articulated idea of what skills and knowledge the students need to have after learning in course, especially used for occupation. The academic programs in university were designed and continuously improved for up to date according to the stakeholders’ requirement before offering to students. Examination or post-test generally is a method for student assessment by evaluating abilities and achievements in every classroom to analyze the effective teaching. This case study showed the development process of learning outcomes assessment for 45 and 55 undergraduate students of 1st year and 2nd year by setting an activity as exhibition model for creative work called “Yearly Micro-Project” in the program of Packaging and Printing Technology, King Mongkut’s University of Technology Thonburi, Thailand. For the 4-year curriculum, the year learning outcomes (YLO) of undergraduate students were set to assess KSA (Knowledge + Skills + Attitude) after the end of each academic year. The students gathered all knowledge to create works according to the problems specified by the instructors for presentation of their design and production process for printing and packaging materials. An assessment with Microsoft Forms of rating criteria (Rubric score) on 5-level was created for assessors who attend the exhibition activity could easily give the scores to each student. The advisors followed up on the progress of their work, collecting assessment results and summarizing student learning outcomes. The satisfaction of students and teachers for this project were evaluated, indicating that this learning outcome assessment method was very appropriate.