remind faculty at which
points in a student’s
program Assessment is
required, and this was
recirculated. Faculty
mentors were instructed to
inform the Graduate
Secretary when these
events have taken place for
a student, so that she can
send out the assessment
materials to the relevant
individuals. We are
currently seeking to identify
other means by which we
can track assessment
compliance by our faculty,
which continues to be a
challenge for our
assessment programs.
SLO3: A graduate student
should be able to
communicate his or her
research to a broadly-
trained public audience.
Link to UNCW Learning
Goal: Thoughtful
expression.
Departmental Seminar
presentation of thesis
research is successfully
completed. An assessment
form is filled out by
departmental faculty
members after the thesis
seminar.Each student in the program
is assessed by all faculty
members in the department
attending the seminar. Data
on presentation quality,
mastery of research,
professional poise and
ability to answer questions
are collected.In 2011-2012, we received
14 responses for this SLO.
Students are generally
performing at levels similar
to previous years.
Presentation quality and
poinse were judged at 93%
(students performing at
level 4 or 5), mastery of
research was 86%, and
ability to answer questions
was 71%. In 2010-2011, the
faculty assessed
performance of this learning
outcome to be good for the
majority of students, with
44 respondents, in
organization (86%), mastery
of research (89%), andThe ability to answer
questions appears to be the
weakest portion of this SLO.
The faculty discussed the
results of assessment to
date at the 2012 retreat and
decided to monitor student
performance over the next
few years on this SLO before
considering any other
changes to our program.