Unit: Financial Economics & Institutions
Program: Finance (BBA)
Degree: Bachelor's
Date: Mon Oct 12, 2009 - 4:29:33 pm

1) List your program's student learning outcomes (SLOs).

Goals 1 through 4 are the same for ALL BBA students. 

Objectives listed under Goal 5 vary by major. 

Objectives for Finance Majors follow:

1) Describe risk and return concepts

2)  Discuss valuation concepts

3)  Discuss financial market concepts

2) Where are your program's SLOs published?

Department Website URL:
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: will be posted on the Shidler College web site during the spring semester
Other:

3) Upload your program's current curriculum map(s) as a PDF.

No map submitted.

4) What percentage of courses have the course SLOs explicitly stated on the course syllabus, department website, or other publicly available document? (Check one)

0%
1-50%
51-80%
81-99%
100%

5) State the SLO(s) that was Assessed, Targeted, or Studied

Assessment in the finance major will begin Spring 2010

6) State the Assessment Question(s) and/or Goal(s) of Assessment Activity

N/A

7) State the Type(s) of Evidence Gathered

N/A

8) State How the Evidence was Interpreted, Evaluated, or Analyzed

N/A

9) State How Many Pieces of Evidence Were Collected

N/A

10) Summarize the Actual Results

N/A

11) Briefly Describe the Distribution and Discussion of Results

N/A

12) Describe Conclusions and Discoveries

N/A

13) Use of Results/Program Modifications: State How the Program Used the Results --or-- Explain Planned Use of Results

N/A

14) Reflect on the Assessment Process

N/A

15) Other Important Information

Although the finance department piloted a new assessment project during the Fall of 2008, review determine that a new plan for assessment of BBA GOAL 5 - demonstrate skills in a functional area of business - was needed. The pilot revealed the assessment design to be both extremely complex, and without working definitions of the the goals/concepts begin assessed. The finance department is revising the process.  

16) FOR DISTANCE PROGRAMS ONLY: Explain how your program/department has adapted its assessment of student learning in the on-campus program to assess student learning in the distance education program.

17) FOR DISTANCE PROGRAMS ONLY: Summarize the actual student learning assessment results that compare the achievement of students in the on-campus program to students in the distance education program.