Engineering Subject Centre Teaching Awards : Use of an objective assessment tool to evaluate students' basic electrical engineering skills

This report examines the use of Objective Structured Technical Examinations (OSTEs) to assess engineering students' core practical and theoretical skills. OSTEs are based on similar type of assessment widely used in medical and health care courses (where they are Clinical Examinations OSCEs) and involve students performing a series of short tasks in a fixed time that are individually assessed by a lecturer.