Unit: Life Sciences
Program: Zoology (BA, BS)
Degree: Bachelor's
Date: Wed Nov 30, 2011 - 5:30:37 pm

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

Student Learning Outcomes

Assessment Data-Collection Method

1. Students will be able to apply a scientific process.

  • Design and conduct experiments
  • Generate, test, and analyze hypotheses
  • Develop laboratories techniques with laboratory safety

Check students’ laboratory notebooks.

Observe students as they perform a laboratory practical on a specific technique

2. Students will be able to communicate about biological science.

  • Write scientific laboratory reports, research proposal, and poster boards.
  • Demonstrate ability to use scientific journals, periodicals, and electronic media to access current biological information.
  • Demonstrate ability to evaluate journal articles from the primary literature.
  • Prepare and deliver oral reports on scientific findings.

Review students’ written laboratory reports, research proposals, and poster boards.

Evaluate students’ oral presentations in various courses

3. Students will be able to recall foundational biological information necessary for entering post-baccalaureate school or entering a career in the biological sciences.

  • Demonstrate understanding of cell structure, cell physiology, and molecular processes of cells.
  • Demonstrate understanding of the principles of organismal physiology, evolution, and ecology.
  • Demonstrate understanding of the relationship between cellular/molecular and supraorganismic principles.

Students’ answers on exams that are similar to the standardized tests.

Obtain students’ results on different standardized tests.

Senior capstone experience

Research papers 

Student portfolios

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

Department Website URL: http://www.hawaii.edu/zoology/ZoologyBiologySLO.pdf
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:
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.

Curriculum Map File(s) from 2011:

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.

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.)

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.

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.

No assessment this year.