Degree Program Assessment Reports : View Reports

Unit: Linguistics
Program: Linguistics (MA)
Degree: Master's
Date: Thu Oct 13, 2011 - 2:25:24 pm

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

The primary objective of the M.A. program is to prove a basic introduction to the subject matter and the skills required for advanced work in the discipline.

Three streams are offered, each reflecting a different focus of contemporary linguistics: linguistic analysis, language and cognition, and language documentation and analysis.

The required courses and activities associated with each stream are tailored to provide students with the training and skills appropriate to the focus they have chosen.

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

Department Website URL: http://www.ling.hawaii.edu/

Student Handbook. URL, if available online: http://www.ling.hawaii.edu/graduate/pdfs/MAmanual.pdf

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

UHM Catalog. Page Number:

Course Syllabi. URL, if available online:

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.

Yearly faculty-wide assessment is performed, whereby each student's grades, performance in class, and performance on research activity is evaluated. The goals are to provide faculty with a fully-informed view of the students' progress, as well as to provide students with individualized feedback on their performance and progress through the degree.

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.

Both numerical ranks (1-9) and short answers were gathered.

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

Each student was evaluated, and each student was sent a letter summarizing this evalation. All students that were within the expected norm for progress through the degree were informed so, and those that were delayed were informed so. Overall, progress has improved over the past several years, and relatively few students fall outside the norm.

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.

16 MA students were making satisfactory progress toward their degrees. None were unsatisfactory.

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

Letters to students were sent out. Students not making satisfactory progress met with their advisors to discuss their status.

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.

None.

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.

None. The current assessment method has proven to be very useful for both students and faculty.

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.