Archived Assessment Report
| Program | Automotive Service Fundamentals Certificate |
| Assessment Reporter | [email protected] |
| Theme | Practicing Community |
| Review Year | 2024-2025 - Final Report |
| Learning Outcome (or Gen Ed Essential Skill) | Focus Area |
|---|---|
| 3. Receive basic level areas of ethics as they pertain to the Automotive industry. | Can students earn an 80% or better on the SP2 ethics assignment? |
| Learning Outcome (or Gen Ed Essential Skill) | Description of Assessment Tool | Population or Courses Assessed | Hypothetical Analysis/Target |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3. Receive basic level areas of ethics as they pertain to the Automotive industry. | SP2 Ethics assignment | AUTC 1110 | All students will score and 80% or better on assessment as required by CNM lab policy. |
| Learning Outcome (or Gen Ed Essential Skill) | Summary of Results | Reflection on Focus Area | Intepretation of Results |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3. Receive basic level areas of ethics as they pertain to the Automotive industry. | 100% of students earned a score of 80% or better on the chosen ethics assignment. | Students were required to complete this assignment before entering the lab. This supports the hypothesis. Students are allowed to retake this assessment as needed until a passing score is earned. | Given that this is a mandatory requirement for all students before they can enter the lab, we feel that a more valuable data point can be gathered. |
| 3. Receive basic level areas of ethics as they pertain to the Automotive industry. | |
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| Describe the change that was implemented. | A new assignment is going to be implemented to assess this data. Students will be required to review a video showing unethical shop behavior and scored using a rubric to identify their ability to identify unethical behavior in a shop environment. |
| Type of Change |
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| Change in Assessment Approach or Tools? | A new assignment is going to be implemented to assess this data. Students will be required to review a video showing unethical shop behavior and scored using a rubric to identify their ability to identify unethical behavior in a shop environment. |
| What data motivated the change? | High scores in the initial assessment inspired us to draw data from a different assignment. |
| Hypothesis about the effect the change will have? | The changes will help us draw more meaningful data from the assignment, truly assessing the student learning vs. the outlined student learning outcomes. |
| Learning Outcome (or Gen Ed Essential Skill) | Description of Assessment Tool | Population of Courses Assessed |
|---|---|---|
| 3. Receive basic level areas of ethics as they pertain to the Automotive industry. | Essay based on video of unethical shop behavior using standardized rubric used by all intro instructors. | AUTC 1110 |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3. Receive basic level areas of ethics as they pertain to the Automotive industry. | Average Grade was a B on an ethics assignment that was assigned to all intro students with 20 As, 18 Bs 1 D and 4 Fs from all reporting classes. | Should we assess another learning outcome in the next round of assessment. |
Describe any change in student achievement observed as part of this assessment process, and what led to those changes.
Yes. Students were more aware of how to apply their sense of ethics to the workplace.
Describe long-term changes in the program(s) that the assessment process led to, and what motivated those changes?
Yes, this assignment will now be used in all automotive intro classes as a teaching opportunity regarding ethics and the community.
What did you learn about the teaching and learning of "Practicing Community" in your programs?
I helped the instructors better sense students perspectives by assigning them a task that made the students determine if interactions reflected positive or negative ethics.
Describe any external factors affecting the program or affecting assessment of the program.
Multiple new faculty and an upcoming move made the assessment process a bit more difficult than anticipated, but the process still went smoothly overall.