Engineering Education experiences turbulent changes, both from government pressures and from industry demands on readdressing the requirements of graduate capability. Despite vast amounts of engineering literature discussing ‘change’ within the field, engineering curricula still maintains its predominant pedagogic model of dissemination to students as it did in previous decades. Technology Enhanced Learning in education has created new and flexible options in the delivery and assessment of teaching and learning, but uptake is limited and approached with caution within Engineering Education. This mixed methods research introduces an inclusive and innovative approach to Engineering Education assessment techniques utilising an integrated blended learning strategy to the implementation of Technology Enhanced Learning within engineering curriculums. The research explores and assesses the effectiveness of Technology Enhanced Learning and educational pedagogies within Engineering Education frameworks to enhance and develop student learning, digital literacy and employability. Preliminary research positioned the research, utilising observation and interview techniques to baseline current pedagogic practices in undergraduate Engineering Education against current literature. An alternative method of video assessment was implemented and embedded following a two year cycle of action research within a cohort of two undergraduate engineering modules. A prototype ‘toolkit’ was created using Xerte Online Toolkits (XOT) to facilitate student learning and support for the assessment. Additional techniques inside the cycles gained further qualitative and quantitative data via a survey and focus groups. Student learning and assessment results showed significant improvement following the introduction of this approach and validated the transferability of this technique into other educational disciplines. An industry based survey validated chosen research methods and provided a comparison of viewpoints on key issues surrounding Engineering Education against existing stakeholders. The research introduces a new innovative approach to Engineering Education utilising Technology Enhanced Learning, validated through positive industry feedback and student academic achievement and satisfaction. Significant improvements on student employability and engineering ‘soft skills’ are evidenced.

International discussions on the conservation of the twentieth-century architectural heritage emphasize the diversity of the whole of the built environment of the entire century, rather than limiting consideration to canonic examples of the architectural historiography during the identification and assessment of the properties to be conserved. In contrast to this international holistic and inclusive approach, the approach to the identification and assessment of the properties in Turkey has in general been selective and exclusive. The early Republican architectural heritage of Turkey is defined through canonical examples drawn from the architectural historiography. On the other hand, more modest, anonymous examples, which constitute the great majority of the built environment of the period, are excluded from conservation status. The main argument of this dissertation is that the current exclusive approach, which selects only some important properties for conservation according to their physical characteristics, is far from understanding the political, institutional and social transformations of the early Republican period, as well as the role of architecture in this transformation. On the basis of this idea, a new assessment approach is proposed in this dissertation which could enable to gain conservation status to the whole diversity of early Republican architecture including more modest examples as well as the canonical ones. Contrary to the current exclusive approach which assesses the end product of a process according to its physical characteristics, the proposed approach is inclusive, taking into consideration the formation and usage processes with all their participating meanings and values and considering these processes along with the final physical form of the building itself. The proposed new approach is tested here on the specific case of the primary school buildings of Izmir, the great majority of which are currently remain out of conservation status due to their rather modest physical qualifications. The dissertation concludes that these buildings are an integral part of the education policies of the early Republican period, of the cultural and social transformations informed by these policies, and of the role of architecture in this process, and that these buildings are the tangible evidences of the meanings and values of this formation process. It then goes on to reveal the necessity of understanding the formation process through extensive research in order to be able to incorporate these meanings and values into the assessment phase.

nÃo hà / A avaliaÃÃo da aprendizagem direcionada a alunos com deficiÃncia à uma ferramenta de fundamental importÃncia no processo de ensino e aprendizagem, norteadora de um processo de transformaÃÃo educacional. Outrossim, por compreender as especificidades dos educandos, possibilita que as aÃÃes avaliativas sejam realizadas assertivamente. Todavia, as prÃticas avaliativas ainda se encontram fixadas na pedagogia do exame, abrangendo avaliaÃÃes de natureza pontual e estÃtica que enfatizam as notas. Dessa forma, à imprescindÃvel investir em uma avaliaÃÃo inclusiva, visto que o enfoque passa a ser na potencialidade e na capacidade do indivÃduo, ao invÃs da Ãnfase nas peculiaridades da sua deficiÃncia. Assim, a presente pesquisa teve, como objetivo geral, realizar uma investigaÃÃo sobre a prÃtica de avaliaÃÃo da aprendizagem realizada junto aos alunos com deficiÃncia matriculados em cursos de graduaÃÃo e pÃs-graduaÃÃo da Faculdade de Economia, AdministraÃÃo, AtuÃria, Contabilidade, Secretariado Executivo e FinanÃas (FEAAC) da Universidade Federal do Cearà (UFC). Especificamente, objetivou-se: i) conhecer os processos e as possibilidades vivenciadas por alunos, professores e coordenadores de curso na avaliaÃÃo da aprendizagem dos alunos com deficiÃncia; ii) identificar as condiÃÃes de acessibilidade referentes Ãs prÃticas avaliativas; iii) reunir contribuiÃÃes de alunos, professores e coordenadores de curso para uma prÃtica inclusiva de avaliaÃÃo de aprendizagem. Para esse propÃsito, foi realizada uma pesquisa de natureza qualitativa, na forma de estudo de caso. Os instrumentos utilizados para a coleta de dados foram a entrevista semiestrutura e o questionÃrio. Foi realizada uma anÃlise de conteÃdo dos dados coletados. As amostras foram compostas por 14 sujeitos, ao total, sendo 3 coordenadores, 4 professores e 8 discentes, ressaltando-se que um dos professores pesquisados à tambÃm coordenador de um dos cursos. Os resultados revelaram que nÃo existem adaptaÃÃes para avaliar o aluno com deficiÃncia. Constata-se que as mudanÃas realizadas ainda sÃo primÃrias em relaÃÃo ao que seria necessÃrio. Nesse sentido, sugere-se que os professores sejam informados com antecedÃncia sobre a presenÃa de alunos com deficiÃncia em sala de aula, para que possam ser efetivadas estratÃgias de inclusÃo desse alunado na universidade.