Archived Assessment Report
| Program | Business AA Degree |
| Assessment Reporter | [email protected] |
| Theme | Practicing Community |
| Review Year | 2024-2025 - Final 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. |
| 1. Student will meet the AA general education outcomes. | |
|---|---|
| Describe the change that was implemented. | The Learning Outcome needs to be changed to link to a measurable assessment tool within the degree program. This will require a catalogue change. |
| Type of Change |
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| Change in Assessment Approach or Tools? | Yes - a new Program Learning Outcome will need to be determined |
| What data motivated the change? | Graduation rates are tracked, but should not be a measure of student achievement within the Faculty Assessment Tool (it would be the only one of its kind) |
| Hypothesis about the effect the change will have? | The change will help identify necessary assessments within the program and not depend on the graduation rates to be a measurement of assessment. |
| 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. | |
|---|---|
| Describe the change that was implemented. | Delete this Learning Outcome |
| Type of Change |
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| Change in Assessment Approach or Tools? | No - There are no assessment tools in place to track this as it is not a Learning Outcomes |
| What data motivated the change? | There are too many individual student variables for BHT to track this as a learning outcome. |
| Hypothesis about the effect the change will have? | It is beyond the scale and scope of BHT Learning Outcomes |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 1. Student will meet the AA general education outcomes. | This is not a Learning outcome and will be changed | No courses were assessed as this is based on graduation rates and will need to be changed to an actual Program Learning Outcome to enable an assessment |
| 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. | This is not a Learning Outcome based on any course along the progression of the program; no assessment tool was used | No courses were used to evaluate this outcome - Although listed as a learning outcome, it is not assessable based on the process of assessment using a course and an assessment tool |
| 3. Apply appropriate accounting principles to business transactions. | Final Exam will continue to be the assessment tool. | ACCT 2110 Principles of Accounting I |
| 4. Identify managerial accounting concepts for use in business decision-making. | Final Exam will continue to be the assessment tool. | ACCT 2120 Principles of Accounting II |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. Student will meet the AA general education outcomes. | No courses were assessed as this is based on graduation rates and will need to be changed to an actual Program Learning Outcome to enable an assessment | Graduation rates are tracked, but should not be a measure of student achievement within the Faculty Assessment Tool (it would be the only one of its kind) | |
| 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. | There are too many individual student variables for BHT to track this as a learning outcome. | No courses were used to evaluate this outcome - Although listed as a learning outcome, it is not assessable based on the process of assessment using a course and an assessment tool BHT will update this into a PLO | |
| 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. | no changes | |
| 4. Identify managerial accounting concepts for use in business decision-making. | 89% of all students met the target of 71% of all students achieving 71% or higher on the Acct 2120 common final exam; goal met. | no changes |
Describe any change in student achievement observed as part of this assessment process, and what led to those changes.
Graduation rates and current assessment tools have been steady.
Describe long-term changes in the program(s) that the assessment process led to, and what motivated those changes?
We are going to put more emphasis on graduation rates and a BUSA class within the course of the program (since it is a BUSA Degree)
What did you learn about the teaching and learning of "Practicing Community" in your programs?
This degree program is set up to transfer to any school in New Mexico following the state general education requirements
Describe any external factors affecting the program or affecting assessment of the program.
State requirements create an anomaly for the degree program to the point of not using a course assessment tool but to track graduation rates to provide evidence that general education requirements are being met.