Designing Transferable Skills Inventory for Assessing Students using Group Discussion: A Case Study of First Year Electrical and Electronics Engineering Students

Abstract

Employability skills among engineering graduates have been a concern due to their inability to perform on a professional platform to the employer’s expected level.  As they are higher cognitive skills, they are to be nurtured during the graduation period.  Keeping this in view, group discussions are identified as one of the methods to elicit leadership, problem solving and communication skills among the student community.  The present study also gives importance to peer assessment as a part of collaborative learning.

Keywords:  Transferable skills, group discussion, employability skills, problem solving and conceptualization