Students’ self-evaluation of learning outcomes in control engineering courses of the post-Bologna reform at the University of Ljubljana

Nedeljković, David (author)

The paper analyses the students’ self-evaluation of learning outcomes for the Control Engineering (academic level program) and Fundamentals of Control Engineering (professional level program) courses at the University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, after the implementation of the Bologna reform. The students predicted their written exam and colloquium results before and after each assessment, rounded to 10 percentage points. The data for the 2011/2012 to 2024/2025 study period reveal the presence of the Dunning-Kruger effect with the lower-performing students overestimating and the highperforming students underestimating their results. The study compares three periods: the early post-Bologna (2011/2012– 2014/2015), pre-pandemic (2015/2016–2018/2019), and post-pandemic (2019/2020–2024/2025) period. The self-evaluation accuracy improved over time, particularly in the post-pandemic period, despite fewer self-evaluation instances due to the increased project-based assessments. The academic program students outperformed the professional program students in the achieved results, likely due to their stronger mathematical skills, and demonstrated more accurate self-evaluations, possibly due to their broader educational background. The findings highlight the self-evaluation role in enhancing learning outcomes and provide guidance for improving the engineering education.

• Language: English
• Keywords: self-evaluation, assessment, students, learning outcomes, control engineering, Dunning-Kruger effect, Bologna reform
• Work type: Article
• Typology: 1.01 - Original Scientific Article
• Organization: FE - Faculty of Electrical Engineering
• Publication status: Published
• Publication version: Version of Record
• Year: 2025
• Number of pages: Str. 166-173
• Numbering: Letn. 92, št. 4
• PID: 20.500.12556/RUL-176071
• UDC: 378
• ISSN on article: 0013-5852
• COBISS.SI-ID: 258035715
• Publication date in RUL: 20.11.2025

Record is a part of a journal

• Title: Elektrotehniški vestnik
• Publisher: Strokovna zadruga koncesijoniranih elektrotehnikov, Elektrotehniška zveza Slovenije
• ISSN: 0013-5852
• COBISS.SI-ID: 742916

Licences

• License: CC BY 4.0, Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
• Link: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Description: This is the standard Creative Commons license that gives others maximum freedom to do what they want with the work as long as they credit the author.

Secondary language

• Language: Slovenian
• Keywords: samoevalvacija, ocenjevanje, študenti, učni izidi, regulacijska tehnika, Dunning-Krugerjev učinek, bolonjska reforma

Projects

• Funder: ARIS - Slovenian Research and Innovation Agency
• Project number: P2-0258
• Name: Pretvorniki električne energije in regulirani pogoni