Unit: Travel Industry Management
Program: Travel Industry Mgt (BS)
Degree: Bachelor's
Date: Tue Oct 08, 2013 - 3:43:31 pm

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

1. Effective Communication

  • Students can employ communication skills effectively to accomplish organizational and professional objectives.

2. Leadership and Teamwork

  • Students can demonstrate leadership.
  • Students can work effectively, respectfully, and professionally as a team member.

3. Critical and Creative Thinking

  • Students can analyze situations and develop alternative options to resolve identified issues.
  • Students can select appropriate information to develop reliable, valid, and logical arguments.

4. Knowledge and Global Perspective

  • From a global perspective, students can explain and apply the principles of travel industry management and of hospitality, tourism, and/or transportation management.

5. Ethics and Stewardship

  • Students can demonstrate integrity and ethical behavior.
  • Students can comprehend the importance of host cultures to the global travel industry and apply sustainable practices.

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

Department Website URL: http://www.tim.hawaii.edu/documents/tim_learning_objectives_bs_degree.pdf
Student Handbook. URL, if available online: NA
Information Sheet, Flyer, or Brochure URL, if available online: NA
UHM Catalog. Page Number: http://www.catalog.hawaii.edu/schoolscolleges/tim/undergrad.htm
Course Syllabi. URL, if available online: NA
Other:
Other:

3) Select one option:

Curriculum Map File(s) from 2013:

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, 2012 and September 30, 2013? (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, 2012 to September 30, 2013: State the assessment question(s) and/or assessment goals. Include the SLOs that were targeted, if applicable.

SKIP

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

Through previous year's assessment activities, we noticed that analytic skills and critical thinking are the areas for improvement. In our curriculum map, most of our upper division core courses introduce and reinforce the student learning objectives in regards to critical and creative thinking. Course syllabi for these courses were reviewed by undergraduate curriculum committee members and made a recommendation to one course to cover one more tool that students can use to analyze numeric data.

The coming year of 2013-2014, TIM school will focus more on improving our curriculum to strengthen students' analytic and critical thinking before we engage in another round of assessment.