Favorite Innovation Logbook Assessment Form Steve Beyerlein Mechanical

Favorite Innovation: Logbook Assessment Form Steve Beyerlein Mechanical Engineering

What is it? Time efficient/user-friendly tool for self-assessment, peer assessment, or instructor assessment of personal documentation that is maintained on a design project.

What are the benefits? * Self reporting/rating of six best entries * Global rating of logbooks in four dimensions * Identification of best practices to sustain * Creation of action plans for improvement * Activity completion within 20 minutes by students and within 10 minutes by faculty

Why I got started? I’ve always enjoyed reading and discussing meaning that students are able to construct during project learning as well as affect towards peers/customers/project challenges. Unfortunately, I found that writing out individualized logbook messages to my capstone design students was very timeconsuming and frequently repetitive.

How do you implement it? Students complete the form and paste it in their personal logbook every month. I collect logbooks on different days for different teams, turning these around overnight. My ratings and my own 1 -2 sentence SII on the logbook appear right next to the student’s own assessments. Return of the logbook often leads to just-in-time mentoring moments.

What resources are on display? * Handout on logbook best practices * Examples of student logbooks as well as related final project reports * Several cycles of logbook assessment forms completed by students * Several cycles of faculty responses to logbooks and assessment forms