Fundamentals of Program Assessment

April 18, 2026
  • Beginner
  • 1 Day
  • Raleigh, NC
Workshop Dates
Apr
18
2026
8:30 a.m. – 4:30 p.m. ET
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About this Workshop

The Fundamentals of Program Assessment Workshop is a workshop designed with a focus on small group interaction and individual assignments to introduce the context for program assessment, examine assessment processes, develop measurable outcomes and apply data collection and reporting methods. The exercises and examples are from associate’s, bachelor’s, master’s and/or tech-focused programs. These can be applied to other program types and/or timeframes.

This workshop will allow you to work in teams and ask questions of experienced facilitators.

This workshop prepares you to:

  • Identify key elements of a functional assessment process.
  • Clarify the similarities and differences between course and program assessment.
  • Make student outcomes measurable with the development of performance indicators.
  • Understand the methods to assess student outcomes.
  • Develop rubrics as one method to score student performance in achieving student outcomes.
  • Identify the pros and cons of various data collection methods.
  • Decipher and report results.

Workshop Details

REGISTRATION
Registration for this one-day, in-person workshop during ABET Symposium 2026 is now available! Please contact education@abet.org if you have any questions.

WHEN
This workshop takes place Saturday, April 18, 2026, from 8:30 a.m. – 4:30 p.m. ET.

WORKSHOP LOCATION & ACCOMMODATIONS
This workshop will be held in Raleigh, North Carolina, USA at the Raleigh Convention Center. ABET has secured discounted guest room rates at (3) hotels located next to the Raleigh Convention Center, the host venue for ABET Symposium 2026. See our Hotel & Travel page here. Please reach out to symposium@abet.org if you have any questions or concerns.

WORKSHOP COST
The cost for this workshop is $760 if you register by Dec. 16, 2025.

The cost for this workshop is $890 if you register after Dec. 16, 2025.

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Workshop Facilitators

Christina Haden, Ph.D.

Dr. Christina Viau Haden is a faculty member in the mechanical engineering and mechanics department at Lehigh University. Her research involves the material property prediction of additively manufactured metals. Besides her research, a passion for teaching has lead her to co-develop of a new interdisciplinary course at Lehigh at the intersection of art and engineering on the topic of Leonardo da Vinci’s life works. Haden also leads her department’s ABET accreditation process, enjoys being an ABET facilitator and serves as the chair of her department’s undergraduate curriculum committee. Haden is also deeply committed to improving the retention rates of women in STEM. She runs a yearly three-day welcome event for incoming engineering freshwomen at Lehigh University, offers a mentoring program for women in her department and advises the Society for Women Engineers (SWE) and Women in Science and Engineering (WiSE) local chapter, among others.

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Catalina Plúa Morales

Catalina Plúa is the Head of the Office of Curriculum Design & International Accreditation and Professor of Education at Universidad San Francisco de Quito USFQ. She oversees the international accreditation processes at USFQ and manages and facilitates all assessment, accreditation, and academic program review efforts for all the undergraduate programs and graduate programs offered in her university.

She received her bachelor in Linguistics from Universidad de Especialidades Espíritu Santo UEES and her MA in Higher and Postsecondary Education Administration from Teachers College, Columbia University. She is an ABET IDEAL Scholar, assessment leader for several higher education institutions in her country, and she is a recurrent consultant expert for the national accreditation agency in her country.

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