Program: Business Administration (MBA)
Degree: Master's
Date: Fri Oct 19, 2012 - 3:25:17 pm
1) Below are your program's student learning outcomes (SLOs). Please update as needed.
1. Demonstrate and apply knowledge of the functional areas of business.
Objectives:
1. Students align functional action plans with organizational strategic intents and vision. [Assessed in BUS 632]
2. Students will design complementary functional action plans, organizational structure, and functional control systems with measures [Assessed in BUS 632]
3. Students will be able to conduct quantitative analysis of data. [Assessed in BUS 621]
2. Communicate effectively orally and in writing
Objectives:
1. Students will speak effectively Assessed in [BUS 696]
2. Students will write an effective report [Assessed in BUS 632]
3. Understand and apply management skills to the Asia-Pacific business environment
Objectives:
1. Students will describe the economics that characterize global business [Assessed in BUS 627]
2. Students will demonstrate knowledge of the Asia-Pacific region [Assessed in BUS 627]
3. Students will describe how national cultures influence business practices and relationships [Assessed in BUS 627]
4. Identify and analyze complex ethical and legal issues.
Objectives:
1. Students will be able to analyze ethical issues to a business situation [Assessed in BUS628]
2. Understand the boundaries and overlaps between ethics and law [Assessed in BUS628]
5. Demonstrate understanding of the impacts of information technology on business
Objectives:
1. Students will explain information technology usage across different business processes and functions [Assessed in BUS 630]
2. Students will be able to evaluate the feasibility of applying information technology in business [Assessed in BUS 630]
2) Your program's SLOs are published as follows. Please update as needed.
Department Website URL: http://www.shidler.hawaii.edu/Default.aspx?tabid=196
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: http://www.shidler.hawaii.edu/Default.aspx?tabid=196 Other: 3) Select one option:
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.
see #1 above
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.
we measured the meeting of learning objectives of students in 8 MBA courses
8) State how many persons submitted evidence that was evaluated. If applicable, please include the sampling technique used.
6
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.
of 31 students surveyed 30 met or exceeded objectives
a very high percentage were judged to have met the learning objectives. I attribute this to a couple of reasons:
--the students at Shidler are taking classes they have interest in and have been academically screened for entrance.
--the set up we have where the faculty report on the learning objectives of the class they teach could lend itself to biased reporting. a more objective method may provide more actionable results
12) State how the program used the results or plans to use the results. Please be specific.
they will be discussed with the faculty assessment committee, to suppot our accreditation efforts and to the betterment of our assessment efforts