QUANTIFICATION ON LEARNERS CORRELATION TO OUTREACH-COMMUNITY PARTICIPATION PROBLEM-BASED-LEARNING IN ENGINEERING EDUCATION

Abstract

The correlation and effect of education strengthening strategies on students effectiveness in knowledge understanding and technology skills of environment and sustainable by incorporating community participation and outreach community field-work were evaluated in this paper. It discussed the challenges and learning approaches of project based learning (PBL)by educating students to think critically about their roles as development professionals and appreciate the role of community participation. Direct measurement of learners outcome and course grade performance of Civil engineering students from four consecutive cohorts (n=246) of Universiti Malaysia Sabah were analyzed and quantified. The correlation on course outcome of learners performance were not only important to indicate the teaching and learning effectiveness, but also to intensify the course continuous quality improvement. After four years of implementation, we observed positive influence and improvement between learners appreciation and environmental application toward community engagement, in spite of various practical challenges and institutional-stakeholders cooperation.