Achievement of Program Outcomes Using Assessment Plan

Lecturers are often focusing their curriculum delivery and assessment on the cognitive part of the curriculum and expect all learning outcomes, that include psychomotor and affective domains are achieved. On student part, learning activities are focused on the assessments set by the lectures which usually skewed heavily toward cognitive domain. This paper suggests a comprehensive assessment plan to ensure all courses and program outcomes are properly assessed. Besides, the plan will motivate the students to focus their learning activities towards the achievement all learning outcomes. In addition, the assessments data can be analysed to detect students’ weaknesses, especially in affective and psychomotor domains, and the overall program effectiveness.