Review Assessment Report

Part 1: Contact & Program Identification

Report Year and Contact Information
Academic Year	Modified By	Date Modified
2022-2023	[email protected]	2024-02-16T02:10:21.468Z

School	Name of Program	Courses
CHSS	SOCI Social Behavioral Gen Ed	SOCI 1110,SOCI 2120,SOCI 2210,SOCI 2220,SOCI 2240,SOCI 2250,SOCI 2310,SOCI 2330,SOCI 2340

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
The department elected look at our Introduction to Sociology (1110) classes. The assessment instrument included a series of multiple-choice questions and two short answer questions. We collected pilot data to test the questions in fall semester 2022 and employed the same questions in spring semester 2023. The pilot study was completed in fall 2022 and looked at whether students who had access to a study guide had stronger attainment of the concepts than those who did not use a study guide. Eleven sections of 1110 offered students a study guide prior to the assessment; in 10 sections students did not get a study guide. Almost 400 students, n=397, completed the assessment. The spring 2023 semester data were analyzed independently for the face-to-face (F2F) and distance learning (DL) sections. Seven of the 9 face-to-face sections (67%) of 1110 submitted data and 11 of the 13 distance sections (69%) submitted data. Eighty-six percent of F2F students and 83% of DL students completed the assignment.

Provide a high level review of the program to include highlights, successes, challenges, significant changes, and significant resources needed to support the program

The department elected look at our Introduction to Sociology (1110) classes. The assessment instrument included a series of multiple-choice questions and two short answer questions. We collected pilot data to test the questions in fall semester 2022 and employed the same questions in spring semester 2023. The pilot study was completed in fall 2022 and looked at whether students who had access to a study guide had stronger attainment of the concepts than those who did not use a study guide. Eleven sections of 1110 offered students a study guide prior to the assessment; in 10 sections students did not get a study guide. Almost 400 students, n=397, completed the assessment. The spring 2023 semester data were analyzed independently for the face-to-face (F2F) and distance learning (DL) sections. Seven of the 9 face-to-face sections (67%) of 1110 submitted data and 11 of the 13 distance sections (69%) submitted data. Eighty-six percent of F2F students and 83% of DL students completed the assignment.

Part 3: Data Review

	2020-2021	2021-2022	2022-2023
Annual number of graduate awards is greater than 10	n/a	n/a	n/a
Number of declared majors	n/a	n/a	n/a
Average Class Size	25.1	23.5	25
Annual Average Class withdrawal rate is 30% or below (SAGE 35%)	14%	12%	14%
Annual C-Pass rate for coursework is 60% or above	66%	69%	66%
Average class fill rate at 60% or above capacity within a term or over a year	82%	76%	81%
Graduate Transfer to 4-year Schools	n/a	n/a	n/a
Full-time Faculty Coverage by Section	76%	79%	31%

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

Part 4: Program Learning Outcome Analysis

Learning Outcome	Population or Course(s) Assessed	Description	Summary of Assessment Results
2a. Critical Thinking: Critical Thinking: Problem Setting	SOCI 1110SOCI 2210SOCI 2310
COMMUNICATION	SOCI 2120SOCI 2250SOCI 2340

Interpretation of Assessment findings
The fall 2022 data analysis looked at whether students who had access to a study guide had stronger attainment of the concepts than those who did not use a study guide. Eleven sections of 1110 offered students a study guide prior to the assessment; in 10 sections students did not get a study guide. Almost 400 students, n=397, completed the assessment. The data suggest that study guides did not make a significant difference in student performance. The spring 2023 semester data for 1110 were analyzed independently for F2F and DL sections. The mean percentage correct scores for the multiple-choice questions show that F2F students are typically lower than in the DL sections. The exception is the methods question that targeted the concepts of population and sample. Almost 50% of students are able to write a cogent answer for both the paradigm and sociological imagination questions with the short answer questions.

Interpretation of Assessment findings

The fall 2022 data analysis looked at whether students who had access to a study guide had stronger attainment of the concepts than those who did not use a study guide. Eleven sections of 1110 offered students a study guide prior to the assessment; in 10 sections students did not get a study guide. Almost 400 students, n=397, completed the assessment. The data suggest that study guides did not make a significant difference in student performance. The spring 2023 semester data for 1110 were analyzed independently for F2F and DL sections. The mean percentage correct scores for the multiple-choice questions show that F2F students are typically lower than in the DL sections. The exception is the methods question that targeted the concepts of population and sample. Almost 50% of students are able to write a cogent answer for both the paradigm and sociological imagination questions with the short answer questions.

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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