Assessing Bs-Cs Student Outcomes Using Senior Project

Undergraduate program assessment is undertaken by many colleges world-wide in support of their continuous improvement processes. In addition to assuring stakeholders of program quality, assessment is required by major regional and national accrediting agencies. A critical part of the assessment process is the generation of useful data for analysis and evaluation yielding indicators for program improvement. Senior year capstone projects are a fertile source of such data. In this paper, we outline the Student Outcomes and Senior Project course of the BS-CS program at Florida International University (FIU). We describe and evaluate a methodology used to perform assessment of attainment of the BS-CS Student Outcomes using data from the Senior Project course.