Review Assessment Report

Part 1: Contact & Program Identification

Report Year and Contact Information
Academic Year	Modified By	Date Modified
2022-2023	[email protected]	2023-10-08T21:52:36.270Z

School	Name of Program	Courses
BIT	Accounting AAS Degree	ACCT 1135,ACCT 1150,ACCT 2110,ACCT 2120,ACCT 2170,ACCT 2220,ACCT 2240,ACCT 2320,ACCT 2999,BCIS 1110,BCIS 2217,BLAW 2110,BUSA 1110,BUSA 1130

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
In comparison to the prior AY: 1. Decrease in number of graduate awards (from 34 to 33) 2. Increase in declared majors (from 401 to 407) 3. Decrease in class size (from 17.3 to 17.4)

Part 3: Data Review

	2020-2021	2021-2022	2022-2023
Annual number of graduate awards is greater than 10	35	34	33
Number of declared majors	443	401	407
Average Class Size	20.1	17.3	17.4
Annual Average Class withdrawal rate is 30% or below (SAGE 35%)	11%	12%	12%
Annual C-Pass rate for coursework is 60% or above	73%	71%	71%
Average class fill rate at 60% or above capacity within a term or over a year	72%	63%	63%
Graduate Transfer to 4-year Schools	20%	n/a	n/a
Full-time Faculty Coverage by Section	61%	51%	20%

Summarize how your program met or did not meet the target measures based on the data above
Targets 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 manually to prepare financial statements in accordance with Generally Accepted Accounting Principles.	Acct 2999, Accounting Capstone	Capstone Project	Target: 85% of Accounting Capstone students will receive an 85% or higher on the Bank Reconciliation, Adjusting Entries, and Financial Statement Outcome Exams. Result: Target not met. 82.54% of students received an 85% or higher on these outcome exams. The average score on these outcome exams was 92.35%.
2. Identify, analyze and record business transactions using general ledger software to prepare financial statements in accordance with Generally Accepted Accounting Principles.	Acct 2220, Computerized Accounting	Other	Target: 75% of students will earn an Acct 2220 course average of 75% or higher. Results: Target met. 81.08% of Acct 2220 students earned a course average go 75% or higher. The overall course average was 86.76%.
3. Review common accounting documents, and prepare related calculations for bank reconciliations, payroll, and basic individual income taxes.	Acct 2999, Accounting Capstone	Capstone Project	Target: 85% of Accounting Capstone students will receive an 85% or higher on the Payroll, Managerial and Individual Tax Outcome Exams. Results: Target met. 93.65% of students received an 85% or higher on these outcome exams, The average score on these outcome exams was 92.88%.
4. Select and apply appropriate managerial accounting concepts for use in business decision-making using both manual and electronic applications.	Acct 2240, Cost Accounting	Class Project	Target: 75% of students will score 75% or higher on the Acct 2240 Common Project. Results: Target met. 85.71% of students scored 75% or higher on the Common Project. The average grade on the Common Project was 89.94%.
5. Evaluate accounting issues and their impact on the accounting environment.	Acct 2125, Intermediate Accounting I	Paper	Target: 75% of students will score a 75% or higher on the Acct 2125 common writing assignment. Results: Target met. 93.10% of students received a score of 75% or higher on the common writing assignment. The average grade on the common writing assignment was 89.05%.

Interpretation of Assessment findings
In learning outcome 1, the target was not met due to the scores on the Adjusting Journal Entries Outcome exam. For this specific outcome exam, only 61.90% of Acct 2999 Capstone students scored 85% or higher. The material covered in this outcome exam is taught in Acct 2125, Intermediate Accounting I. At the Accounting Program meeting in October, 2023, the Accounting faculty will discuss increasing the emphasis and time spent on adjusting journal entries in Acct 2125. In learning outcome 2, in Fall 2022, Acct 2220 was changed to an Open Educational Resources format. In this format shift, the common final exam that was used previously as the assessment tool was no longer applicable. For this reason the Acct 2220 course grade was used to measure this learning outcome. Starting in Spring 2024, a new Final Exam will be implemented for Acct 2220. Targets were met for the other learning outcomes. Accounting faculty will continue to monitor these results.

Interpretation of Assessment findings

In learning outcome 1, the target was not met due to the scores on the Adjusting Journal Entries Outcome exam. For this specific outcome exam, only 61.90% of Acct 2999 Capstone students scored 85% or higher. The material covered in this outcome exam is taught in Acct 2125, Intermediate Accounting I. At the Accounting Program meeting in October, 2023, the Accounting faculty will discuss increasing the emphasis and time spent on adjusting journal entries in Acct 2125. In learning outcome 2, in Fall 2022, Acct 2220 was changed to an Open Educational Resources format. In this format shift, the common final exam that was used previously as the assessment tool was no longer applicable. For this reason the Acct 2220 course grade was used to measure this learning outcome. Starting in Spring 2024, a new Final Exam will be implemented for Acct 2220. Targets were met for the other learning outcomes. Accounting faculty will continue to monitor these results.

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

Upcoming Year	Changes Planned for the upcoming year	Data Motivating this change
2022-2023
2022-2023
2022-2023

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

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