Evaluation Of Dsign Projects For High Students Intake

In many engineering institutions design projects are assigned to groups of students. The evaluation of these projects may be extremely tedious and time consuming due to very high intake of students: say 250 students in a branch of engineering. A project takes about 2 ½ hours in evaluation. Hence proper evaluation is impossible if examiners are short in number having limited time to spare. This problem was solved by making evaluation committees and distributing the evaluation work in committees. To make the work of committees uniform or homogeneous a check list for project evaluation was developed. The work of evaluation committees was to a great extent uniform as evident from statistical analysis. This method enabled thorough evaluation of large number of projects in comparatively short time. The combined results of the committees fitted the normal curve with 5% level of significance. Hence the committees can be considered as substitute of single evaluation committee.