SLO 1a: A graduate student
should be able to develop a
research plan.
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Goal: Inquiry
Prospectus is successfully
completed and defended to
student’s committee. The
student’s committee
evaluates prospectus with a
form.Each student in the program
is assessed by each of
his/her committee
members. Data on
prospectus quality, depth
and breadth are collected.
Implementation of the
assessment of this SLO was
planned to begin in the
2009 - 2010 year.
Department moved to
online forms in 2010- 2011
to improve faculty
participation.Despite the change to
online forms, no data are
available for 2010-2011 nor
for 2011-2012.Faculty were reminded at
the annual Retreat in
August 2012 that
compliance with
Assessment materials is
mandatory and crucial for
our ability to evaluate the
performance of our
students and whether or
not they are meeting their
SLOs. The Graduate
Assessment Coordinator
prepared a “Milestones for
Assessment” document to
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. We
will therefore start
evaluating student
performance on this SLO in
the 2012-2013 year.
SLO 1b: A graduate student Prospectus is successfully Each student in the program During 2011-2012, we The faculty discussed the