Departmental Assessment Update - Shidler College of Business Report

Department: Business Administration
Program: IM Ph.D.
Level: Graduate

1. List in detail your graduate Student Learning Outcomes (SLOs) for each degree/certificate offered.

1.     Acquire advanced knowledge of international management issues in Asia and the Pacific.

 

2.     Acquire knowledge to teach courses in one of the following functional areas: accounting, finance, organization & strategy, information technology management, and marketing.

 

3.     Acquire research skills in chosen area of  international research

 

4.     Ability to effectively teach courses


5.     Ability to write publishable research reports


2. Where are these SLOs published (e.g., departmental web page)?

3. Explain how your SLOs map onto your curriculum, i.e., how does your program of graduate studies produce the specific SLOs in your students?

4. What population(s) is covered by your assessment(s)?

5. Please list/describe all the assessment events and devices used to monitor graduate student progress through the program. Consider the following questions:

1. Acquire advanced knowledge of international management issues in Asia and the Pacific.

 

Assessment:      Qualifying exam and presentations in BUS 705.

 

2.     Acquire knowledge to teach courses in one of the following functional areas: accounting, finance, organization & strategy, information technology management, and marketing.

 

Assessment:       Comprehensive exam, review of performance while teaching classes

 

3.     Acquire research skills in chosen area of  international research

 

Assessment:       Comprehensive exam, evaluation of dissertation proposal

 

4.     Ability to effectively teach courses

 

Assessment: Several methods

·      Assessment by University of Hawai‘i at M?noa’s Center for Instructional Support

·      Review by faculty member responsible for student’s teaching mentorship

·      Teaching evaluations and faculty review of performance while teaching

 

5.     Ability to write publishable research reports

Assessment:      Several methods

·      Review by faculty member in charge of student’s research assistantship

·      Feedback for papers submitted to conference and journals

·      Review by the student’s dissertation committee

 

6. Please list/describe how your graduate students contribute to your discipline/academic area? Consider the following questions:

The IM PhD students regularly present papers at academic conferences. The college provides financial support to students.

Some students have published papers in academic journals as co-authors with their faculty advisors.

7. What attempts are made to monitor student post-graduate professional activities?

The IM PhD program office tracks all graduates of the program. Students have taken faculty positions in universities in the US and Asia.

8. How were the assessment data/results used to inform decisions concerning the curriculum and administration of the program?

9. Has the program developed learning outcomes? Please indicate yes or no.

YES

10. Has the program published learning outcomes? Please indicate yes or no.

No

11. If so, please indicate how the program has published learning outcomes.

12. What evidence is used to determine achievement of student learning outcomes?

13. Who interprets the evidence?

The IM PhD program has a faculty director and a faculty committee responsible for all aspects of the program.

14. What is the process of interpreting the evidence?

TH IM PhD program committee meets several times per semester to review the program and progress of the students.

15. Indicate the date of last program review.

UHM COPR: 2007

AACSB International Accreditation review: 2006