Program: Computer Science (PhD)
Degree: Doctorate
Date: Mon Sep 26, 2011 - 11:21:04 am
1) Below are your program student learning outcomes (SLOs). Please update as needed.
These SLOs have been officially approved by the ICS faculty and are posted on our Web site.
M.S. Program:
The ICS M.S. graduate program provides courses for advanced education in Computer Science and affords opportunities to conduct research. Our objective is to help students achieve a high level of professional competence and lifelong learning, with the following Student Learning Objectives:
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Master core computer science theoretical concepts, practices and technologies;
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Identify, formulate and solve problems employing knowledge within the discipline;
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Contribute effectively to collaborative team oriented activities;
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Communicate effectively about computer science topics using appropriate media;
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Demonstrate advanced knowledge in an area of specialization within the discipline;
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Engage in significant research in their area of specialization within the discipline and/or in projects that respond to community and industry needs.
Ph.D. Program:
The ICS Ph.D. graduate program provides advanced, individualized training in research in Computer Science, preparing students for research careers in academia and industry. Beyond those for the M.S. program, the Ph.D. program involves the three following Student Learning Objectives:
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Develop a research portfolio that demonstrates the capacity to carry out original research in the field;
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Become an expert in the area of specialization including mastery of the relevant research skills and methods, develop a research vision, and formulate a research plan that will lead to novel scientific contributions;
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Execute a research plan and demonstrate original contributions to the field, as shown through findings and/or publications, culminating in a Ph.D. dissertation and oral defense.
2) Your program's SLOs are published as follows. Please update as needed.
Department Website URL: http://www.ics.hawaii.edu/academics/graduate-programs
Student Handbook. URL, if available online: Information Sheet, Flyer, or Brochure URL, if available online: http://www.ics.hawaii.edu/academics/slos/ICS-GradPrograms-SLOs.pdf UHM Catalog. Page Number: Course Syllabi. URL, if available online: Other: Other: 3) Below is the link(s) to your program's curriculum map(s). If we do not have your curriculum map, please upload it as a PDF.
- File (03/16/2020)
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.
0% 1-50%
51-80% 81-99% 100%5) For the period June 1, 2010 to September 30, 2011: State the assessment question(s) and/or assessment goals. Include the SLOs that were targeted, if applicable.
We commenced most assessment activities at the end of Spring 2011, i.e., once SLOs and Assessment Grid were officially approved and amended by the faculty.
* 3 assessment grids were completed for 2 students (2 portfoliio evaluations, and 1 proposal defense). Each grid rates each SLO whenever applicable. Only one of the 3 SLOs applies for each grid. This is not enough data to draw any conclusion and define goals. Given the number of students in this program, and historical data, we expect that around 3 data points will be acquired per semester. In 3 semesters we should thus have around 12 data points.
* We've been assessing the ICS Graduate Student Orientation, which takes place after the Graduate Student orientation held by Graduate Division. At the end of the orientation, the attends are asked to rate the following 2 statements (and to answer "what was the most useful?" and "what was the least useful?" questions that are open ended):
1) This session was useful to me
2) I would recommend this session to other incoming students
The options were "totally agree", "partially agree", "neither agree or disagree", "partially disagree", "totally disagree'
6) State the type(s) of evidence gathered to answer the assessment question and/or meet the assessment goals that were given in Question #5.
* The "Assessment Grid" is filled by ad-hoc committees of the faculty (Proposal defense, final defense) or the Graduate Chair alone (ICS690 seminar presentations) . These grids are kept in paper format in the Graduate Chair's office. 3 grids have been collected to date.
* The Student Orientation assessment is filled by the students themselves and kept in the Graduate Chair's office in paper format.
7) State how many persons submitted evidence that was evaluated. If applicable, please include the sampling technique used.
* 3 assessment grids were completed for 2 students (2 portfoliio evaluations, and 1 proposal defense). Each grid rates each SLO whenever applicable. Only one of the 3 SLOs applies for each grid. This is not enough data to draw any conclusion and define goals. Given the number of students in this program, and historical data, we expect that around 3 data points will be acquired per semester. In 3 semesters we should thus have around 12 data points.
* 21 Graduate Student Orientation assessments were collected since June 2010.
8) Who interpreted or analyzed the evidence that was collected? (Check all that apply.)
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: 9) How did they evaluate, analyze, or interpret the evidence? (Check all that apply.)
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: 10) For the assessment question(s) and/or assessment goal(s) stated in Question #5:
Summarize the actual results.
* For the SLO Assessment Grid, only 3 of which have been collected to date, Out of the possible ratings (Unacceptable, Marginal, Acceptable, Exceptional) were: Acceptable (SLO #1), Exceptional (SLO #1), and "Acceptable/Exceptional" (SLO #2).
11) State how the program used the results or plans to use the results. Please be specific.
* Regarding SLOs assessment, the plan is to examine results once a statistically significant number of them has been gathered. The Graduate Committee, who meets monthly, will identify weaknesses in both our assessment method and our assessment results, and make recommendations to the faculty in a view to proposing improvements.
* Regarding Graduate Student Orientation assessment, results over the last semester are so positive that the orientation seems in good shape. If the results were to become significantly worse, then the Graduate Committee would meet to propose a set of improvements.
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.
No discoveries so far due to the small number of data points. Futuer semesters should be more interesting.
13) Other important information.
Please note: If the program did not engage in assessment, please explain. If the program created an assessment plan for next year, please give an overview.
As the graduate chair, I was trying to enter the report for both the MS and the PhD program at the same time using your system, and turns out I wasted 1 hour because what I was doing in one window I was overwriting in the other. It seems your system doesn't allow concurrent report filing for two programs. This should either be fixed or stated clearly with a warning: "WARNING: You can only work on one report at a time".