66 - 69% of students
performed at level 4 or 5 on
a scale of 1-5. For
demonstration of
professional poise, 86% of
students performed at
levels 4 or 5.
In 2010-2011 our Ph.D.
students were assessed as
performing well on
presentation quality and
poise (85% for both), but at
lower levels for mastery of
research and ability to
answer questions (54% for
both). In the 2009- 2010
year, we had no
assessments to report. In
2008 - 2009 our students
demonstrated higher levels
of performance with
performance >90% for all
parts of this SLO.
However any trends in
these data need to be
viewed with caution as
sample sizes are still small.
We feel that given the
nature of this assessment
tool, a greater number of
responses is required to
fully evaluate student
performance on this SLO.
SLO 4: A graduate student
should be able to write up
his or her research in the
form of multiple
manuscripts for publication
in scientific journals. Link to
Multi-chaptered
dissertation is successfully
completed. The student’s
committee evaluates the
quality of the dissertation
with a form.Each student in the program
is assessed by each of
his/her committee
members. Data on the
quality of the writing,
mastery of the research,We have few responses for
assessment for the PhD
program in 2012-13, so data
presented here are for the
longer two year period of
2011 - 2013.Results were discussed at
the Faculty retreat in
August. We will continue to
collect data on this SLO in
2013 - 2014 and monitor the
performance of our