<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>The European Union has placed competence-based teaching and competence-based education as one of its highly relevant goals. Due to mass higher education, the assessment of effectiveness and relevance evaluation of environmental engineering study programmes should become an important issue. Presently the focus of the evaluation on multi-disciplinary study programmes varies from the evaluation of attitudes, impacts or effectiveness of utilisation-focused evaluation, summative evaluation and participatory evaluation approaches. The objective of this study was to propose an effective framework to evaluate the Environmental Engineering Master study programmes. During the research, the evaluation of existing study programmes on environmental engineering in Europe was conducted, information about the study courses, teaching methods, assessment methods and competences was used for the analysis. The results obtained showed that lectures, site visits, group coursework, practical laboratories and role-plays allows to reach the necessary knowledge, skills and competences and to provide an effective and relevant education to the Environmental Engineering Master programme students. The proposed evaluation framework was tested and approbated on new Riga Technical University Master study programmes on Environmental Engineering and Bioeconomy.</p></abstract>

The European Union has placed competence-based teaching and competence-based education as one of its highly relevant goals. Due to mass higher education, the assessment of effectiveness and relevance evaluation of environmental engineering study programmes should become an important issue. Presently the focus of the evaluation on multi-disciplinary study programmes varies from the evaluation of attitudes, impacts or effectiveness of utilisation-focused evaluation, summative evaluation and participatory evaluation approaches. The objective of this study was to propose an effective framework to evaluate the Environmental Engineering Master study programmes. During the research, the evaluation of existing study programmes on environmental engineering in Europe was conducted, information about the study courses, teaching methods, assessment methods and competences was used for the analysis. The results obtained showed that lectures, site visits, group coursework, practical laboratories and role-plays allows to reach the necessary knowledge, skills and competences and to provide an effective and relevant education to the Environmental Engineering Master programme students. The proposed evaluation framework was tested and approbated on new Riga Technical University Master study programmes on Environmental Engineering and Bioeconomy.

Evaluation of the Environmental Engineering Study Programme at University

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Environmental and Climate Technologies

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The European Union has placed competence-based teaching and competence-based education as one of its highly relevant goals. Due to mass higher education, the...

Evaluation of the Environmental Engineering Study Programme at University

Publié en ligne: 18 nov. 2019

Pages: 310 - 324

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/rtuect-2019-0070

Mots clés
Assessment, bioeconomy, competence-based higher education, environmental engineering, indicators, internal quality management, MCA

© 2019 Jelena Pubule et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.

Evaluation of the Environmental Engineering Study Programme at University

Publié en ligne: 18 nov. 2019

Pages: 310 - 324

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/rtuect-2019-0070

Mots clésAssessment, bioeconomy, competence-based higher education, environmental engineering, indicators, internal quality management, MCA

© 2019 Jelena Pubule et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.

Mots clés
Assessment, bioeconomy, competence-based higher education, environmental engineering, indicators, internal quality management, MCA