CHAP TER 11 Case Study in Product and / or Industrial Design

Accurately assessing the quality of one’s work is a crucial skill for professional designers and design students alike. This paper describes teaching materials that help students self-assess their work in a design course at a large university in the US. Using these materials, students have been successful in evaluating themselves—in 69% of all weekly student submissions, self-assessed scores matched independent staff-assessments. Self-assessment accuracy also improved through the term (F(1; 1332) = 31:72; p < 0:001). This submission introduces a novel workflow for integrating studio feedback with self-assessment in design education and describes our experiences using this approach for the last three years with more than 400 students. Student success in self-evaluation suggests that techniques from these materials can be integrated into design environments elsewhere. We outline our plans to extend these materials for use with peerevaluation and for assessments in large online design classes.