Learning Assessment in a Design-Throughout-the-Curriculum Program

Benefits of a Low-Stakes Show and Tell Session in Biomedical Engineering Design

“…Teams found fellow students' suggestions to be uniquely valuable, but in the case of the final poster presentation, this feedback came too late to be useful. Additionally, our Assessment Committee, which reviews the work output from the spring BME Design courses annually, has noted that teams often run out of time in the semester for thorough testing, so it would be beneficial to incentivize them to prototype sooner [1,2] . In response, we devised a low-stakes Show and Tell session which occurs semesterly between existing presentations to capitalize on our students' aptitude for providing valuable verbal feedback.…”