Fair Assessment Method Reflecting Individual Ability in Capstone Design Course

Capstone design is a subject taught in a setting where students gather in a team, decide on their own selected topic, and collaboratewith one another to perform a project. A fair assessment is very important in a team project-based capstone design course for students. Many instructors agree that harmonizing creative evaluation and outcome assessment is hard in capstone design class. In also, it isnot easy to assess students’ individual efforts and achievements fairly in accordance with team-based assessment practices. To resolvethis issue in this paper, we have surveyed various engineering design education methodologies, and have modelled existing evaluatingelements into a modified creative process and outcome assessment framework for team project assessment. In particular, we focusedon a method of fairly assigning credits by combining team based and individual-level assessments. Analyzing students’ achievementand grade evaluation and verifying the validity of the proposed method was performed.