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Evaluation of Learning Outcomes in Civil Engineering Studies

One of the goals of graduate civil engineering education is to develop generic and technical competences that will provide wider opportunities for graduates in finding good jobs and a higher chance of promotion. The traditional approach to civil engineering education in the Republic of Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina however has been more oriented towards the development of professional, engineering skills and competences. To identify what skills and competences are required by employers and to find the perceived expectation gap of civil engineering skills between academic preparation and market needs a number of approaches can be used. The approach applied in this paper is based on survey questionnaires with the purpose of identifying current and future skill needs as perceived by employers in the Republic of Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina. In this paper, a list of generic and technical skills and competences developed in the Republic of Croatia, with respect to instructions developed by European Civil Engineering Education and Training (EUCEET), is compared with a list of competences applied in Bosnia and Herzegovina to indicate the degree of similarity among the lists and the possible convergence among universities in these two countries. The survey asked employers to rate listed competences by its importance and the degree of achieving goals in the education process. The results of the survey are analyzed and examined to reveal the deficiencies of current civil engineering education in the Republic of Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina, and recommendations for improving the quality of civil engineering studies curricula are proposed.

learning outcomes ; competences ; evaluation ; employers ; civil engineering studies

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