Unit: Tropical Plant & Soil Sciences
Program: Tropical Plant & Soil Sci (MS)
Degree: Master's
Date: Thu Oct 22, 2015 - 4:29:01 pm
Program: Tropical Plant & Soil Sci (MS)
Degree: Master's
Date: Thu Oct 22, 2015 - 4:29:01 pm
1) Below are your program's student learning outcomes (SLOs). Please update as needed.
MS in Tropical Plant and Soil Sciences:
1. Plan A students are required to give a thesis proposal seminar.
2. All MS students are required to give one lecture in a TPSS course during their program.
3. Plan A students must pass a final oral exam and complete original research culminating in a thesis.
4. Plan B students complete an original project culminating in a Plan B paper.
5. Plan C students take a final exam to complete the program.
1) Institutional Learning Objectives (ILOs) and Program Student Learning Outcomes (SLOs)
2) Your program's SLOs are published as follows. Please update as needed.







3) Please review, add, replace, or delete the existing curriculum map.
No map submitted.
4) For your program, the percentage of courses that have course SLOs explicitly stated on the syllabus, a website, or other publicly available document is as follows. Please update as needed.





5) Did your program engage in any program learning assessment activities between June 1, 2014 and September 30, 2015?


6) What best describes the program-level learning assessment activities that took place for the period June 1, 2014 to September 30, 2015? (Check all that apply.)







7) Briefly explain the assessment activities that took place in the last 18 months.
Faculty created new SLOs for the Masters degree Program.
8) What types of evidence did the program use as part of the assessment activities checked in question 6? (Check all that apply.)
Direct evidence of student learning (student work products)














Indirect evidence of student learning







Program evidence related to learning and assessment
(more applicable when the program focused on the use of results or assessment procedure/tools in this reporting period instead of data collection)




9) State the number of students (or persons) who submitted evidence that was evaluated. If applicable, please include the sampling technique used.
10) Who interpreted or analyzed the evidence that was collected? (Check all that apply.)










11) How did they evaluate, analyze, or interpret the evidence? (Check all that apply.)







12) Summarize the results of the assessment activities checked in question 6. For example, report the percent of students who achieved each SLO.
13) What best describes how the program used the results? (Check all that apply.)









14) Please briefly describe how the program used the results.
15) Beyond the results, were there additional conclusions or discoveries? This can include insights about assessment procedures, teaching and learning, and great achievements regarding program assessment in this reporting period.
16) If the program did not engage in assessment activities, please explain.
We will work with the Assessment office to develop our SLOs.
We have drafted SLOs for the MS and Ph.D. programs.