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Palmer, Louisiana Tech University  \nVirgil Orr Professor of Chemical Engineering Director of Biomedical and Chemical Engineering  \n􀀍c American Society for Engineering Education, 2016  \nGoogle Sheets for Realtime Assessment and Analysis of Less Structured Problems  \nAbstract  \nUniversities are under increasing pressures for efficiencies in education with declining budgets, increasing enrollments, and increasing expectations/accountability by students. A traditional approach with engineering or science computations is to parse the answers into a multiple choice selection. Grading of these problems is efficient and has evolved from Scantron systems to Clickers, to open source online solutions such as Moodle, Google Forms, or WebWORK. This method does have its limitations. An investment of time is required in identifying the array of possible answers. In addition, multiple choice questions allow a student to provide guesses when they might not have an idea how to approach the problem. In the grading that is performed as a batch, the instructor loses the temporal resolution which is most helpful in determining which areas are giving students particular issues.  \nThe controlled sharing and import of individual data through Google Sheets provides educatorsan opportunity to utilize a spreadsheet for collecting and assessing answers real-time. This is easy to do in a manner where all students see all answers, but individual shared sheets can be setup to provide a private interaction with each student. There are several advantages to this system over many current approaches: students can continue to change their answers until the time that the instructor \"grades\" the assignment, the instructor has a real-time view of the student's answers and grades at any instant (with the opportunity to provide direction), tolerance values can be built in along with a median value of student answers, and sort features in Google provide real-time information on the students and concepts that are having the most issues.  \nThis approach has been piloted in a Capstone Senior Design class for Chemical Engineering where structured concepts were taught and assessed (economics, relief sizing, etc.) and openended designs were utilized (where the instructor did not have a \"right\"/\"wrong\" answer, but significant deviations could be discerned) .  \nIntroduction  \nFaculty and institutions are embracing technology to become more efficient in assessing student learning and providing feedback. Alaeddine [et. al.](et. al. 20151 discussed)[ 2015](et. al. 20151 discussed)[1](et. al. 20151 discussed)[ discussed](et. al. 20151 discussed) the opportunities in the context of increased student learning through technology, and their experience with an office of Educational Technology and Academic Affairs. Hogan and Cernusca 20122 wrote about the implementation of Clickers to increase or at least maintain student learning in the challenging environment of large enrollment (~50-60 that had increased to 170+) where the course was not in the primary major of a significant proportion of the students (a structural geology class with a large number of petroleum engineering students) . In the recent history, most states have shifted a larger fraction of state general funding to institutional self-generated funding (primarily tuition  \nand fees) . In this model, traditional institutional discounting or scholarships of tuition have a disproportionate negative impact on the net revenue. Therefore, total net funding per full-time equivalent (FTE) of student has been relatively stagnate or even declining for many institutions. The state of the study unfortunately leads the Southern Regional Education Board in lowest total funding per FTE student in a four year institution, with further calls by the legislature and much of the public to drive further efficiencies. 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