Mapping Data to Proposed ABET Student Outcome Changes
After initially coding the interviews based on existing a-k standards, interviews were then
mapped to proposed changes in ABET Student Outcomes. Each interview was counted only once
per category, regardless of the number of a-k categories present. For example, if a given
interview was coded with both (a) and (e), it would be counted as one example of category (1)
and one example for category (3). It is worth noting that the proposed changes to Student
Outcomes are easier to map to than the previous a-k standard. While in a-k there is some
ambiguity as to whether a given individual, for example, applied knowledge of engineering (a) to
build something or identified and solved a problem using engineering (e), in the proposed
standard it is much easier to simply identify that as applying to (1), or to (3) if they explicitly
collected and interpreted data.