1. Community Engaged Scholarship Designing And Assessing Group Projects
Khalid Kadir
Lecturer
College of Engineering
International and Area Studies
This project was completed with the help of the LTF program and my colleagues in that program.

2. Community Engaged Scholarship: Designing and Assessing Group Projects
Context and Challenges
Undergraduate Engineering AC Course
ACES Program
Student Projects Collaboratively Designed with Community Partners
Key Challenges
Project Design and Implementation
Student Assessment
Slide 1: background, context, problem, opportunity
Project Design
Semester Timeframe, Student Skill Level
Dynamic/Shifting Projects
Student Assessment
Effort vs. Outcomes
Process vs. Product
Khalid Kadir

3. Community Engaged Scholarship: Designing and Assessing Group Projects
Overcoming Challenges
Formal Project Management
Actively coaching students to take independent initiative
Ensuring projects maintain minimum standards
Instructor Documentation/Student Tracking
Mid-Semester Deliverables and Group Evaluations
Slide 2: project plan, execution, implementation
Formal Project Management
Weekly team meetings with instructor (20 min/team)
Formal communication protocols, group role assignments
Detailed work timeline and budget (student created)
Instructor Documentation/Student Tracking
Meeting attendance, student issues, work plans, etc.
Mid-Semester Deliverables and Group Evaluations
Deliverables - Enable reality-check, is the project still on track?
Focused on both degree and quality of student engagement
Khalid Kadir

4. Community Engaged Scholarship: Designing and Assessing Group Projects
Expected Outcomes
Improved Project Implementation Process
Flexible Project Deliverables
Increased Student Control Over Projects
Ongoing Assessment Throughout the Semester
Slide 3: (projected/anticipated) project outcome/findings
Improved Project Implementation Process
Smoother, more balanced workload over the semester
For both students and instructor
Provides a framework for changing deliverables based upon intermediate project outcomes
Flexible Project Deliverables
Codetermined with students and instructor
Improved final quality
Increased Student Control Over Projects
Licensed to take initiative, employ creative approaches and ideas
Ongoing Assessment Throughout the Semester
Continuous documentation
Clearer communication with students
Khalid Kadir