Archived Assessment Report
| Program | Veterinary Receptionist Certificate |
| Assessment Reporter | [email protected] |
| Theme | Practicing Community |
| Review Year | 2024-2025 - Midpoint Report |
| Learning Outcome (or Gen Ed Essential Skill) | Focus Area |
|---|---|
| 4. Assess various career paths and paraprofessional opportunities in the veterinary profession, including professional ethics and confidentiality. | A graded questionnaire given to the students, assessing career opportunities, confidentiality, and ethics, presented at the beginning of class shows improvement compared to the same questionnaire provided at the final. |
| Learning Outcome (or Gen Ed Essential Skill) | Description of Assessment Tool | Population or Courses Assessed | Hypothetical Analysis/Target |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4. Assess various career paths and paraprofessional opportunities in the veterinary profession, including professional ethics and confidentiality. | A graded questionnaire given before and after a major project highlighting career opportunities, confidentiality, and ethics. | VT 1005 | Improvement will be noted and all students will pass the graded questionnaire, during the course final, with at least a 90%. |
| Learning Outcome (or Gen Ed Essential Skill) | Summary of Results | Reflection on Focus Area | Intepretation of Results |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4. Assess various career paths and paraprofessional opportunities in the veterinary profession, including professional ethics and confidentiality. | 22 students took the pre and post course questionnaire. Regarding knowledge of career pathways in the veterinary profession, an average of 4.6 careers were provided pre course and 5.9 were provided post. Pre questionnaire 22% of student knew what a paraprofessional opportunity was and 36% post. Pre questionnaire showed 68% confidence in the concepts of ethics and confidentiality and 87% post. | Improvement was noted which supports the focus question. Although, the questionnaire items were ultimately analyzed separately and focus was on comparing pre and post course questions. An overall grade, as suggested, for the assignments was not applicable. | Comparing pre and post questionnaire there was some improvement noted. Most notably in regards to how the student feels about their knowledge with ethics and confidentiality. Knowledge on paraprofessional opportunities were fair/poor pre and did not show much improvement post course. |
| Learning Outcome (or Gen Ed Essential Skill) | Description of Assessment Tool | Population of Courses Assessed |
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| Learning Outcome (or Gen Ed Essential Skill) | Summary of Second Round Results | Intepretation of Results, Pre- and Post-Change | Follow up questions, possible next steps |
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