Evaluation of Affective Domain for Civil Engineering Design Project Before and During COVID-19: A Case Study in UiTM Johor

Abstract

The affective domain is one of the three Bloom's Taxonomy domains that deal with emotions, attitudes, and feelings. It includes values, fervour, and motivations. In order to ensure that the Programme Outcomes (POs) established in the Engineering Technology Accreditation Council (ETAC) Manual 2020 for engineering education are met, it is crucial that students be evaluated in this affective domain. This study aims to evaluate the affective domain of the Civil Engineering Design Project course at UiTM Johor before and during the COVID-19 outbreak, which swung the country. The evaluation of the Programme Outcome (PO) for the affective domain mapped to this topic is divided into two primary sections. The first PO is PO8, which addresses understanding and commitment to professional ethics, responsibilities, and norms of technician practice. The second PO, PO10, focuses on communicating effectively on well-defined engineering activities with the engineering community and society, by being able to comprehend the work of others, document their own work, and give and receive clear instructions. The results of these two POs from five semesters before and during COVID-19 were analyzed and discussed to achieve the objective of the study. The result has shown significant changes in the aspect of different mediums of teaching which respond to the face-to-face and online distance learning (ODL) study. The results indicate that the performance in the affective domain of PO8 and PO10 is better before the pandemic compared to performance during the pandemic