Archived Assessment Report
| Program | Certified Public Acct Prep Certificate |
| Assessment Reporter | [email protected] |
| Theme | Practicing Community |
| Review Year | 2024-2025 - Midpoint Report |
| Learning Outcome (or Gen Ed Essential Skill) | Focus Area |
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| 1. Identify, analyze and record business transactions in accordance with Generally Accepted Accounting Principles. | To ensure students understand and be able to identify, analyze and record business transactions in accordance with Generally Accepted Accounting Principles. |
| 2. Select and apply appropriate accounting concepts for use in business decision making. | To equip students with the knowledge, skills and analytical mindset to be able to evaluate and apply the accounting concepts and skills in business decision making process. |
| 3. Identify, research and evaluate business tax issues. | To help students identify, research, and evaluate business tax issues comprehensively, enabling informed decision-making, compliance with tax laws, and the implementation of tax-efficient strategies for various business entities. |
| 4. Evaluate accounting/auditing issues and their impact on the accounting environment and disclosure requirements. | Provide students training and skills to develop the ability to apply the accounting and auditing concepts in various business scenarios to enhance the quality of financial reporting and disclosure requirements. |
| Learning Outcome (or Gen Ed Essential Skill) | Description of Assessment Tool | Population or Courses Assessed | Hypothetical Analysis/Target |
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| 1. Identify, analyze and record business transactions in accordance with Generally Accepted Accounting Principles. | Common Final Exam | Acct 2125
Intermediate I | 75% of students will score 75% or higher on the Acct 2125 common final exam. |
| 2. Select and apply appropriate accounting concepts for use in business decision making. | Common Research Case | Acct 2130
Intermediate II | 75% of students will score 75% or higher on the Acct 2130, Common Writing Assignment. |
| 3. Identify, research and evaluate business tax issues. | Common Tax Research Case | Acct 2350, Tax II | 75% of students will score 75% or higher on the Tax Research Case Assignment. |
| 4. Evaluate accounting/auditing issues and their impact on the accounting environment and disclosure requirements. | Common Writing Assignment | Acct 2520, Auditing | 75% of students will score 75% or higher on the Common Writing Assignment. |
| Learning Outcome (or Gen Ed Essential Skill) | Summary of Results | Reflection on Focus Area | Intepretation of Results |
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| 1. Identify, analyze and record business transactions in accordance with Generally Accepted Accounting Principles. | Target met. 93.75% of students scored 75% or higher on the Acct 2125 common final exam. The average grade on the common final exam was 86.93%. | Targets were met for this learning outcomes. Accounting faculty will continue to monitor these results. | This is very encouraging and positive change made based on the fact that prior two years results of data of missing the target. |
| 2. Select and apply appropriate accounting concepts for use in business decision making. | Results: Target not met. 60% of students scored 75% or higher on the Acct 2130 Common Writing Assignment. The average grade on the common final exam was 75%. | The results supported to the original focus area hypothesis. | Compare to prior year of 50% of students scored 75% or higher on the Acct 2130 Common Writing Assignment, this year there is an increase to 60% of students scored 75% or higher. |
| 3. Identify, research and evaluate business tax issues. | 60% of students will score 75% or higher on the Tax Research Case Assignment. | Yes, these results support the focus area question. | Even though this target was not met, the data showed that students submitted the project all achieved 100%. |
| 4. Evaluate accounting/auditing issues and their impact on the accounting environment and disclosure requirements. | 75% of students scored 75% or higher on the Common Writing Assignment.
Average score is 85%. | Yes, these results support the focus area question. | As in prior years, students continue to successfully meet this learning outcome. In comparison to prior year, the average score on the written assignment increased by over 2.65%. |
| 1. Identify, analyze and record business transactions in accordance with Generally Accepted Accounting Principles. |
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| Describe the change that was implemented. | Different faculties teach this class will make sure use the same final exam to access students who take this class. |
| Type of Change | |
| Change in Assessment Approach or Tools? | No. Final exam will continue to be the assessment tool. |
| What data motivated the change? | Yes data motivated the changes. |
| Hypothesis about the effect the change will have? | The department wise uniformed final exam will help to compare the data on the same level. |
| 2. Select and apply appropriate accounting concepts for use in business decision making. |
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| Describe the change that was implemented. | Instructor can set up progress and due date announcements to help students stay on track. |
| Type of Change | |
| Change in Assessment Approach or Tools? | No. The Final Writing Assignment will continue to be the assessment tool. |
| What data motivated the change? | Yes, the passing rate data motivates the changes. |
| Hypothesis about the effect the change will have? | The Writing assignment is based on research and obtain the adequate supporting data . Faculty early reminder will help students to spend enough time on research and data mining before they write the report. |
| 3. Identify, research and evaluate business tax issues. |
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| Describe the change that was implemented. | Instructor help students to keep track of the progress and due date of the Tax Research Case by sending reminder announcement to increase the completion and submission rate of the project. |
| Type of Change | - Faculty training/development
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| Change in Assessment Approach or Tools? | No assessment tool change. |
| What data motivated the change? | Yes. Data motivates changes as students achieved passing grade if they can turn in the project. |
| Hypothesis about the effect the change will have? | Instructor reminders will help students to stay on track. Those students lose track and leave the assignment to the last minute are more likely to miss the assignment. |
| 4. Evaluate accounting/auditing issues and their impact on the accounting environment and disclosure requirements. |
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| Describe the change that was implemented. | No radical changes. Accounting faculty will continue to collect and monitor the data especially when this course is taught by different faculty in different semesters. |
| Type of Change | |
| Change in Assessment Approach or Tools? | Common Writing assignment will be the assessment tool. No change. |
| What data motivated the change? | Accounting faculty will continue to collect and monitor the data especially when this course is taught by different faculty in different semester to ensure the reliability of data. |
| Hypothesis about the effect the change will have? | Assessment data reliability will be assessed and quality of data will be improved. |
| Learning Outcome (or Gen Ed Essential Skill) | Description of Assessment Tool | Population of Courses Assessed |
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| 1. Identify, analyze and record business transactions in accordance with Generally Accepted Accounting Principles. | Final Exam will continue to be the assessment tool. | ACCT2125 Intermediate Accounting I |
| 2. Select and apply appropriate accounting concepts for use in business decision making. | Common Writing Assignment. | Acct 2130 Intermediate Accounting II |
| 3. Identify, research and evaluate business tax issues. | Tax Research Case | Acct 2350, Tax II |
| 4. Evaluate accounting/auditing issues and their impact on the accounting environment and disclosure requirements. | Common Writing Assignment | Acct 2520, Auditing |
| 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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| 1. Identify, analyze and record business transactions in accordance with Generally Accepted Accounting Principles. | | | |
| 2. Select and apply appropriate accounting concepts for use in business decision making. | | | |
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?
What did you learn about the teaching and learning of "Practicing Community" in your programs?
Describe any external factors affecting the program or affecting assessment of the program.