Review Assessment Report

Part 1: Contact & Program Identification

Report Year and Contact Information
Academic Year	Modified By	Date Modified
2020-2021	[email protected]	2021-11-06T19:57:31.289Z

School	Name of Program	Courses
BIT	Certified Public Acct Prep Certificate	ACCT 2130,ACCT 2350,ACCT 2120,ACCT 2320,BLAW 2110,ACCT 2520

Part 2: Program Summary

Provide a high level review of the program to include highlights, successes, challenges, significant changes, and significant resources needed to support the program
Decrease in both graduate awards and declared majors for the Certified Public Acct Prep Certificate for the 2020/2021 academic year in comparison to the prior year.

Part 3: Data Review

	2018-2019	2019-2020	2020-2021
Annual number of graduate awards is greater than 10	10	19	11
Number of declared majors	67	52	48
Average Class Size	21.9	21.3	18.2
Annual Average Class withdrawal rate is 30% or below (SAGE 35%)	9%	10%	8%
Annual C-Pass rate for coursework is 60% or above	82%	80%	80%
Average class fill rate at 60% or above capacity within a term or over a year	73%	74%	65%
Graduate Transfer to 4-year Schools	0%	11%	n/a
Full-time Faculty Coverage by Section	82%	87%	82%

Summarize how your program met or did not meet the target measures based on the data above
All targets are met.

Part 4: Program Learning Outcome Analysis

Learning Outcome	Population or Course(s) Assessed	Description	Summary of Assessment Results
1. Identify, analyze and record business transactions in accordance with Generally Accepted Accounting Principles	ACCT 2125.	Final Exam	Target: 75% of students will score 75% or higher on the Acct 2125 common final exam. Results: Target met. 84.31% of students scored 75% or higher on the Acct 2125 common final exam. The average grade on the common final exam was 86%.
2. Select and apply appropriate accounting concepts for use in business decision making.	ACCT 2130.	Other	Target: 75% of students will score 75% or higher on the Acct 2130, Common Writing Assignment. Result: Target not met. 71.43% of students scored 75% or higher on the Common Writing Assignment. Average grade on the writing assignment was 80.43%.
3. Identify, research and evaluate business tax issues	ACCT 2350.	Other	Target: 75% of students will score 75% or higher on the Tax Research Case Assignment. Result: 100% of student scored 75% or higher on the Tax Research Cas Assignment. Average grade on this assignment was 95.5%.
4. Evaluate accounting/auditing issues and their impact on the accounting environment and disclosure requirements	ACCT 2520.

Interpretation of Assessment findings
For the Common Writing Assignment for Learning Objective 2, even though the target was not met, the accounting faculty are going to gather another year of data and see if this trend continues.

Part 5: Additional Action Plan in Support of Student Learning (If Appropriate)

Upcoming Year	Changes Planned for the upcoming year	Data Motivating this change
2021-2022
2021-2022
2021-2022

Please select all of the following that characterize the types of changes described in the above action plan