Archived Assessment Report
| Program | Powerplant Maintenance Technician Certificate |
| Assessment Reporter | [email protected] |
| Theme | Practicing Community |
| Review Year | 2024-2025 - Final Report |
| Learning Outcome (or Gen Ed Essential Skill) | Focus Area |
|---|---|
| 5. Maintain and repair aircraft powerplants. | Students will Maintain and repair aircraft powerplants according to the Airman Certification Standards (ACS) published by the FAA. |
| Learning Outcome (or Gen Ed Essential Skill) | Description of Assessment Tool | Population or Courses Assessed | Hypothetical Analysis/Target |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5. Maintain and repair aircraft powerplants. | Standardized Multiple choice exam, Powerplant | AVMT 1345 | Target, students must passed the exam with a 70% or better. |
| Learning Outcome (or Gen Ed Essential Skill) | Summary of Results | Reflection on Focus Area | Intepretation of Results |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5. Maintain and repair aircraft powerplants. | 7/7 Students passed AVMT 1345. Data was not available for the written exam. | The data is not available for the written exam. The pass rate of the course is related to student performance. | This shows us that Instructors in future cycles should administer a standardized FAA written exam. |
| 5. Maintain and repair aircraft powerplants. | |
|---|---|
| Describe the change that was implemented. | The Instructor staff agrees to prepare and evaluate the students with standardized FAA exams in this course. |
| Type of Change |
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| Change in Assessment Approach or Tools? | This will result a change in the assessment approach since previous Instructors weren't providing data or administering standardized tests. |
| What data motivated the change? | The data motivating this change is a small student population in AVMT 1345 and no data available for student performance on the standardized exam. |
| Hypothesis about the effect the change will have? | The planned changes of testing the students with the standardized exams will help with the course pass rates and students performance on the FAA written exams. |
| Learning Outcome (or Gen Ed Essential Skill) | Description of Assessment Tool | Population of Courses Assessed |
|---|---|---|
| 5. Maintain and repair aircraft powerplants. | Standardized written exam. | AVMT 1345 |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5. Maintain and repair aircraft powerplants. | 11/11 Students passed the second round of assessments. The average score on the written exam was 87%. | The next step is to standardize Instructional practices within the AVMT program. In this last cycle, both Instructors agreed on the method of test preparation. It's important for the Instructional staff to follow program guidelines when it comes to testing and graduation. |
Describe any change in student achievement observed as part of this assessment process, and what led to those changes.
Yes, we saw a higher retention rate and acceptable test scores. Changes in the Instructional staff and following program policies and test preparation strategies led to this current cycle's success.
Describe long-term changes in the program(s) that the assessment process led to, and what motivated those changes?
This is a change we've wanted to see of years --all of the Instructional staff on board with test preparation for the students. Our students do better when we take time to prepare them for their certification exams for the FAA just before graduation.
What did you learn about the teaching and learning of "Practicing Community" in your programs?
Practicing community help us to understand Industry needs with our employment partners and how to best prepare our students by exam preparation and acceptable work practices.
Describe any external factors affecting the program or affecting assessment of the program.
The Federal Aviation Administration requires that 70% of our students pass their certification exams after graduation. Currently, our program stands at 93% pass rate in this assessment cycle with the FAA.