Archived Assessment Report
| Program | Powerplant Maintenance Technician Certificate |
| Assessment Reporter | [email protected] |
| Theme | Practicing Community |
| Review Year | 2024-2025 - Midpoint 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 |
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Describe any change in student achievement observed as part of this assessment process, and what led to those changes.
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