Archived Assessment Report

Learning Outcome (or Gen Ed Essential Skill)	Focus Area
1. Student will meet the AA general education outcomes.	Do students meet the AA general education outcomes needed for this transfer degree?
2. Transfer to a four year program to continue studies toward a 4-year degree in Business and perform with equivalent success to non-transfer students.	Do students transfer to a four year program for a 4-year degree in Business and are they equally as successful as non-transfer students?
3. Apply appropriate accounting principles to business transactions.	Do students have a firm understanding of accounting principles, such as, the revenue recognition principles and full disclosure principle, to be able to analyze a business transaction occurring in a workplace setting and apply appropriate accounting treatment as it pertains to recording the transaction into an accounting information system or preparing financial statements?
4. Identify managerial accounting concepts for use in business decision-making.	Do students have the necessary skills to identify and correctly apply managerial accounting concepts that are used in business decision-making in a workplace setting?

Learning Outcome (or Gen Ed Essential Skill)	Description of Assessment Tool	Population or Courses Assessed	Hypothetical Analysis/Target
1. Student will meet the AA general education outcomes.	See Gen Ed assessment plans	State approved Gen Ed courses	Annual number of graduate awards is greater than 10
2. Transfer to a four year program to continue studies toward a 4-year degree in Business and perform with equivalent success to non-transfer students.	Transfer dashboard/transfer data	Business AA core courses	An increase in graduate transfers to 4-year Schools over the prior year.
3. Apply appropriate accounting principles to business transactions.	Final Exam	ACCT 2110	71% of all students achieving 71% or higher on the Acct 2110 common final exam
4. Identify managerial accounting concepts for use in business decision-making.	Final Exam	ACCT 2120	71% of all students achieving 71% or higher on the Acct 2120 common final exam

Learning Outcome (or Gen Ed Essential Skill)	Summary of Results	Reflection on Focus Area	Intepretation of Results
1. Student will meet the AA general education outcomes.	Data Unavailable	Data Unavailable	Data Unavailable
2. Transfer to a four year program to continue studies toward a 4-year degree in Business and perform with equivalent success to non-transfer students.	Data Unavailable	Data Unavailable	Data Unavailable
3. Apply appropriate accounting principles to business transactions.	84.37% of all students met the target of 71% of all students achieving 71% or higher on the Acct 2110 common final exam; goal met.	The results support the hypothesis.	Students appears to have a firm understanding of accounting principles.
4. Identify managerial accounting concepts for use in business decision-making.	87.61% of all students met the target of 71% of all students achieving 71% or higher on the Acct 2120 common final exam; goal met.	The results support the hypothesis.	Students have the necessary skills to identify and correctly apply managerial accounting concepts.

3. Apply appropriate accounting principles to business transactions.
Describe the change that was implemented.	With this target met, ACCT 2110 faculty team will continue to monitor these results.
Type of Change
Change in Assessment Approach or Tools?	No change needed at this time.
What data motivated the change?	No change needed at this time.
Hypothesis about the effect the change will have?	No change needed at this time.

4. Identify managerial accounting concepts for use in business decision-making.
Describe the change that was implemented.	With this target met, ACCT 2120 faculty team will continue to monitor these results.
Type of Change
Change in Assessment Approach or Tools?	No change needed at this time.
What data motivated the change?	No change needed at this time.
Hypothesis about the effect the change will have?	No change needed at this time.

Learning Outcome (or Gen Ed Essential Skill)	Description of Assessment Tool	Population of Courses Assessed
3. Apply appropriate accounting principles to business transactions.
4. Identify managerial accounting concepts for use in business decision-making.

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

Describe any change in student achievement observed as part of this assessment process, and what led to those changes.

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