Unit: Office of the Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs
Program: A1_Assessment_ProgExample
Degree: NA
Date: Tue Aug 20, 2013 - 10:53:39 am

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

  1. The Assessment Office has in place an infrastructure to sustain a culture of assessment.
  2. Faculty members engage in the scholarship of teaching and learning.
  3. Academic degree programs complete the assessment cycle, which includes faculty members using assessment results to improve student learning.
  4. Department leaders and administrators use student learning assessment results to guide planning.
  5. The campus community (faculty members, administrators, staff, students) perceives program-level assessment as supporting student learning.

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

Department Website URL: http://manoa.hawaii.edu/assessment
Student Handbook. URL, if available online: NA
Information Sheet, Flyer, or Brochure URL, if available online: NA
UHM Catalog. Page Number: NA
Course Syllabi. URL, if available online: NA
Other: NA
Other: NA

3) Select one option:

Curriculum Map File(s) from 2012:

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) Did your program engage in any program assessment activities between June 1, 2011 and September 30, 2012? (e.g., establishing/revising outcomes, aligning the curriculum to outcomes, collecting evidence, interpreting evidence, using results, revising the assessment plan, creating surveys or tests, etc.)

Yes
No (skip to question 14)

6) For the period June 1, 2011 to September 30, 2012: State the assessment question(s) and/or assessment goals. Include the SLOs that were targeted, if applicable.

EXAMPLE: How well are students meeting outcomes 1-3?

7) State the type(s) of evidence gathered to answer the assessment question and/or meet the assessment goals that were given in Question #6.

EXAMPLE: Student work from CRS 400 and 401 were collected.

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

EXAMPLE: All students enrolled submitted the assignments--26 total.

9) 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:

10) 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:

11) For the assessment question(s) and/or assessment goal(s) stated in Question #6:
Summarize the actual results.

EXAMPLE:

80% of the students scored "3" or "4" on the rubric (max=4).

20% of the students scored "2" which is considered borderline acceptable.

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

EXAMPLE: The faculty teaching the courses will review the assignment guidelines and decide if they are adequate and if students need more time to complete the assignments (3 weeks was given this semester).

13) 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 at this time.

14) If the program did not engage in assessment activities, please explain.
Or, if the program did engage in assessment activities, please add any other important information here.

Nothing to add