Program: Public Health (MPH, MS)
Degree: Master's
Date: Fri Oct 14, 2011 - 5:57:22 am
1) Below are your program student learning outcomes (SLOs). Please update as needed.
Epidemiology Competency
1. Identify patterns of disease and injury in human populations and apply epidemiological methods to the identification and control of health problems.
Social and Behavioral Health Sciences Competency
2. Identify basic theories, concepts, and models from a range of social and behavioral disciplines that are used in public health research and practice.
3. Identify the causes of social and behavioral factors that affect health of individual and populations.
4. Describe the merits of social and behavioral science interventions and policies.
5. Apply evidence-based approaches in the development and evaluation of social and behavioral science interventions.
Biostatistics Competency
6. Apply basic statistical methods to address, analyze and solve problems in public health.
Environmental Health Competency
7. Describe how environmental factors (biological, physical, and chemical) affect the health of a community.
Health Policy and Management Competencies
8. Identify the main components and issues of the organization, financing and delivery of health services and public health systems in the US.
9. Describe the legal and ethical bases for public health and health services.
10. Apply the principles of program planning, development, budgeting, management and evaluation in organizational and community initiatives.
11. Apply “system thinking for resolving organizational problems.
Diversity and Culture Competency
12. Explain why cultural competence alone cannot address health disparities; be able to interact with both diverse individuals and groups on public health issues.
Leadership Competency
13. Organize community partnerships to create and communicate a shared vision for a changing future; discuss solutions to organizational and community challenges; and maximize motivation to reach public health goals.
Public Health Biology Competency
14. Discuss how public health biology – the biological and molecular context of public health – impacts public health practice.
Systems Thinking Competency
15. Recognize system-level properties that result from dynamic interactions among human and social systems and how they affect the relationships among individuals, groups, organizations, communities, and environments.
Program Planning Competency
16. Plan for the design, development, implementation, and evaluation of strategies to improve individual and community health.
Ethics and Professionalism Competency
17. Demonstrate ethical choices, values and professional practices implicit in public health decisions; consider the effect of choices on community stewardship, equity, social justice and accountability; and to commit to personal and institutional development.
Communication and Informatics Competency
18. Collect, manage and organize data to produce information and demonstrate ability to present this information in meaningful ways to different audiences.
2) Your program's SLOs are published as follows. Please update as needed.
Department Website URL: www.hawaii.edu/publichealth Student Handbook. URL, if available online: http://www.hawaii.edu/publichealth/download/students/1112_Handbook.pdf
Information Sheet, Flyer, or Brochure URL, if available online: UHM Catalog. Page Number: Course Syllabi. URL, if available online: www.hawaii.edu/publichealth/academics/courses.html 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.
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.
The assessment goal is that all graduating MPH students achieve the 18 stated MPH SLOs or competencies.
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.
MPH students are required to complete the 6 core courses and 7 specialization courses with a passing grade of an “A”, “B”, or “C”. The SLOs competencies are linked to each required course in the MPH degree program. The specific selected competencies are listed in each syllabus that show which competencies were obtained upon completion. The teaching faculty members select the appropriate competencies and note them in their syllabi that are obtained by satisfactory completion of their course.
7) State how many persons submitted evidence that was evaluated. If applicable, please include the sampling technique used.
The number persons included the all faculty members (18) submitting the MPH students’ grades for those SLOs courses, the students (31 graduating MPH students) with submitting their’ portfolio, and the instructor (1) for PH 789: Integrative Seminar checks that the students completed all the parts of the assessment process.
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: The methods of evidence for MPH include the following four (4) items: 1) MPH portfolio collected in final PH 789 Integrative Seminar course, 2) passing grade with “A” “B” or “C” in each course linked to competencies, 3) faculty's syllabi with selected linked competencies, and/or 4) competency system re-designed to link more closely with MPH curriculum (map).10) For the assessment question(s) and/or assessment goal(s) stated in Question #5:
Summarize the actual results.
Summary of the results produced 100% of graduating MPH students (31) completed all four pieces of evidence for December 2010 and May 2011 graduation.
11) State how the program used the results or plans to use the results. Please be specific.
The results were shared with the Department’s Curriculum Committee that helped refine the process each year.
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.
The process has become a standardize assessment process of PH 789: Integrative Seminar addressing all three different specializations with a specific format.
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 at this time.