Archived Assessment Report
| Program | Veterinary Technology AAS Degree |
| Assessment Reporter | [email protected] |
| Theme | Practicing Community |
| Review Year | 2024-2025 - Midpoint Report |
| Learning Outcome (or Gen Ed Essential Skill) | Focus Area |
|---|---|
| 2. Communication Skill: Communicate in a professional manner in all formats: written, oral, non-verbal, and electronic. | The student's communication skills, graded on the "Clinical Professional Behavior Assessment", improved from term 4 (start of clinicals) and term 6 (graduation). |
| 3. Laws and Ethics Skill: Follow and uphold applicable laws and the veterinary technology profession’s ethical code to provide high quality care to patients. | The student's ability to follow and uphold applicable laws and veterinary ethics, graded on the "Clinical Professional Behavior Assessment", improved from term 4 (start of clinicals) and term 6 (graduation). |
| Learning Outcome (or Gen Ed Essential Skill) | Description of Assessment Tool | Population or Courses Assessed | Hypothetical Analysis/Target |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2. Communication Skill: Communicate in a professional manner in all formats: written, oral, non-verbal, and electronic. | A Clinical Professional Behavior Assessment rubric will be submitted by two different clinical evaluators. | VT 2190, VT 2890 | Improvement will be noted and a minimal score of 27/36 points will be obtained. |
| 3. Laws and Ethics Skill: Follow and uphold applicable laws and the veterinary technology profession’s ethical code to provide high quality care to patients. | A Clinical Professional Behavior Assessment rubric will be submitted by two different clinical evaluators. | VT 2190, VT 2890 | Improvement will be noted and a minimal score of 27/36 points will be obtained. |
| Learning Outcome (or Gen Ed Essential Skill) | Summary of Results | Reflection on Focus Area | Intepretation of Results |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2. Communication Skill: Communicate in a professional manner in all formats: written, oral, non-verbal, and electronic. | The scores within the "Clinical Professional Behavior" assessment in term 4, the students averaged 32.6/36 (90%). In term 6, the students averaged 34.1/36 (94%). | The results were above the hypothetical analysis of the minimal score of 27/36. Improvement was noted. | The students had a fairly high score to start with in the term 4 evaluation. Comparing the term 4 with term 6 evaluation there was a 1.5-point improvement on average. |
| 3. Laws and Ethics Skill: Follow and uphold applicable laws and the veterinary technology profession’s ethical code to provide high quality care to patients. | The scores within the "Clinical Professional Behavior" assessment in term 4, the students averaged 32.6/36 (90%). In term 6, the students averaged 34.1/36 (94%). | The results were above the hypothetical analysis of the minimal score of 27/36. Improvement was noted. | The students had a fairly high score to start with in the term 4 evaluation. Comparing the term 4 with term 6 evaluation, there was a 1.5 point improvement on average. |
| 2. Communication Skill: Communicate in a professional manner in all formats: written, oral, non-verbal, and electronic. | |
|---|---|
| Describe the change that was implemented. | Change the questions in the Clinical Professional Behavior assessment to include direct questions regarding student communication skills. |
| Type of Change |
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| Change in Assessment Approach or Tools? | no |
| What data motivated the change? | 616/2025 |
| Hypothesis about the effect the change will have? | These changes will better reflect the learning outcome/skills in question. |
| 3. Laws and Ethics Skill: Follow and uphold applicable laws and the veterinary technology profession’s ethical code to provide high quality care to patients. | |
|---|---|
| Describe the change that was implemented. | Change the questions in the Clinical Professional Behavior assessment to include direct questions regarding student communication skill. |
| Type of Change |
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| Change in Assessment Approach or Tools? | No |
| What data motivated the change? | 6/16/2015 |
| Hypothesis about the effect the change will have? | These changes will better reflect the learning outcome/skills in question. |
| Learning Outcome (or Gen Ed Essential Skill) | Description of Assessment Tool | Population of Courses Assessed |
|---|---|---|
| 2. Communication Skill: Communicate in a professional manner in all formats: written, oral, non-verbal, and electronic. | Same tool with changes to some of the questions. | VT 2190 and VT 2890 |
| 3. Laws and Ethics Skill: Follow and uphold applicable laws and the veterinary technology profession’s ethical code to provide high quality care to patients. | Same tool with changes to some of the questions. | VT 2190 and VT 2890 |
| 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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Describe any change in student achievement observed as part of this assessment process, and what led to those changes.
Describe long-term changes in the program(s) that the assessment process led to, and what motivated those changes?
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