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Unit: Mathematics
Program: Mathematics (BA, BS)
Degree: Bachelor's
Date: Tue Sep 27, 2011 - 9:07:53 am

1) Below are your program student learning outcomes (SLOs). Please update as needed.

Recipients of an undergraduate degree in mathematics are expected to learn, understand, and be able to apply:

calculus in one and several variables,
linear algebra and the theory of vector spaces,
several mathematical topics at the junior and senior level,
in depth at least one advanced topic of mathematics, an approved two-course sequence.

In addition, students are expected to acquire the ability and skills to:

develop and write direct proofs, proofs by contradiction, and proofs by induction,
formulate definitions and give examples and counterexamples,
read mathematics without supervision,
follow and explain algorithms,
apply mathematics to other fields.

Finally, recipients of an undergraduate degree in mathematics are expected to have learned about research in mathematics

2) Your program's SLOs are published as follows. Please update as needed.

Department Website URL: http://www.math.hawaii.edu/home/?program_goals

Student Handbook. URL, if available online:

Information Sheet, Flyer, or Brochure URL, if available online:

UHM Catalog. Page Number:

Course Syllabi. URL, if available online: http://www.math.hawaii.edu/home/class_syllabi.html

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.

Curriculum Map File(s) from 2011:

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.

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.

According to the Department Assessment Plan, we are committed to assess to which extend our graduating majors meet our program goals.

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.

All mathematics undergraduate majors are required to take capstone seminar (Math 480), and as part of it they take the assessment exam. The exam is written, it has three parts, and students are expected to spend in excess of one hour on each part. Students will not receive credit for the course if they do not take the exam. In addition the Math 480 instructor evaluates presentations that each student has to give in the seminar.

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

All of our graduating majors must take the assessment exam, and last year the enrollment for the capstone course was 14.

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.

Most of our majors meet our program goals by the time they graduate. There computational skills are better than their mathematical thinking skills, and they show little enthusiasm, creativity, and ingenuity.

11) State how the program used the results or plans to use the results. Please be specific.

Our character building course is `Introduction to Advanced Mathematics’ (Math 480). It is required of all of our majors. We will rewrite the syllabus for this course to make sure that certain essential topics are taught by each instructor.

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.

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.

1) Below are your program student learning outcomes (SLOs). Please update as needed.

2) Your program's SLOs are published as follows. Please update as needed.

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.

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) 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.

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.

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

8) Who interpreted or analyzed the evidence that was collected? (Check all that apply.)

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

10) For the assessment question(s) and/or assessment goal(s) stated in Question #5:Summarize the actual results.

11) State how the program used the results or plans to use the results. Please be specific.

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.

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.

10) For the assessment question(s) and/or assessment goal(s) stated in Question #5:
Summarize the actual results.

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.

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.