Unit: Natural Resources & Environmental Management
Program: Natural Resources & Environmental Mgt (PhD)
Degree: Doctorate
Date: Fri Sep 03, 2010 - 11:46:58 am

1) Below are the program student learning outcomes submitted last year. Please add/delete/modify as needed.

1. acquire skills to solve Natural Resource and Environmental Management problems

2. acquire quantitative reasoning and critical thinking

3. communicate effectively both orally and in writing

4. acquire practical experience to be job ready

2) As of last year, your program's SLOs were published as follows. Please update as needed.

Department Website URL: http://www.ctahr.hawaii.edu/nrem
Student Handbook. URL, if available online: http://www.ctahr.hawaii.edu/nrem/academics/downloads/Grad_Stud_Guide_Augut_15_09_Version.pdf
Information Sheet, Flyer, or Brochure URL, if available online: http://www.ctahr.hawaii.edu/nrem/academics/master.html
UHM Catalog. Page Number: 350
Course Syllabi. URL, if available online:
Other:
Other:

3) Below is the link to your program's curriculum map (if submitted in 2009). If it has changed or if we do not have your program's curriculum map, please upload it as a PDF.

Curriculum Map File(s) from 2009:

4) The percentage of courses in 2009 that had course SLOs explicitly stated on the syllabus, a website, or other publicly available document is indicated below. Please update as needed.

0%
1-50%
51-80%
81-99%
100%

5) State the assessment question(s) and/or goals of the assessment activity. Include the SLOs that were targeted, if applicable.

First, please see response to question #13.

Between June, 2009 and September, 2010, the NREM Graduate Committee did not perform any formal assessment activity.

The NREM Graduate Committee and department were primarily involved with the implementation of the new M.S. Plan B professional degree program (see Assessment of M.S. degree program for more details about this program).

6) State the type(s) of evidence gathered.

First, please see response to question #13. No new evidence was gathered for the Ph.D. degree program.

7) Who interpreted or analyzed the evidence that was collected?

Course instructor(s)
Faculty committee
Ad hoc faculty group
Department chairperson
Persons or organization outside the university
Faculty advisor
Advisors (in student support services)
Students (graduate or undergraduate)
Dean/Director
Other:

8) How did they evaluate, analyze, or interpret the evidence?

Used a rubric or scoring guide
Scored exams/tests/quizzes
Used professional judgment (no rubric or scoring guide used)
Compiled survey results
Used qualitative methods on interview, focus group, open-ended response data
External organization/person analyzed data (e.g., external organization administered and scored the nursing licensing exam)
Other:

9) State how many persons submitted evidence that was evaluated.
If applicable, please include the sampling technique used.

Not applicable at this time.

10) Summarize the actual results.

Please see response to question #13.

11) How did your program use the results? --or-- Explain planned use of results.
Please be specific.

Not applicable at this time.

12) Beyond the results, were there additional conclusions or discoveries? This can include insights about assessment procedures, teaching and learning, program aspects and so on.

Not applicable at this time.

13) Other important information:

With the addition of new faculty, a new M.S. Plan B program, and continued modifications to the other graduate programs, it is essential that NREM update its assessment objectives (SLOs) and activities.

NREM proposes the following assessment activities for the academic year 2010 - 2011:

     October 29, 2010              UHM Assessment Office will provide a workshop for NREM faculty and staff

                                           (graduate student representatives are also invited to attend). At this time, the

                                           department will reconsider the SLOs used in 2009.

     November 2010 -              NREM will refine SLOs for undergraduate and graduate programs.

     February 2011 

     February - April 2011        Determine assessment methodology and/or activities for each SLO.

     June 2011 - September     First year of implementation of revised SLOs.

     2012

New activities/proposals:

     (i) form departmental assessment committee to continue undergraduate and graduate programs

         assessment

    (ii) develop and utilize exit surveys of graduate students to assist the assessment process and adopt a

         mechanism for maintaining contact with NREM graduates

   (iii) promote hiring an APT position to assist with undergraduate/graduate advising and program assessment

         (Justification: Expanding undergraduate and graduate program enrollments)