OFFICE OF ASSESSMENT AND ACCREDITATION

GOAL ASSESSMENT REPORT: AY 06/07

MAJOR: BBA - Computer Information Technology

Section One:

Activity Statement:

Section Two:

Intended Outcomes/Assessment Criteria

Intended Outcomes 1: IT graduates will find employment in their chosen field.

Assessment Criteria: At least 85% of IT graduates will either be employed in the IT profession or have made other plans which may prevent them from accepting employment.

Results of Outcomes Activity:

2006-2007 / Met / According to the information that was received from the Office of Career Services all MIS/IT graduates from Spring 2006 who had responded were working within the IS/IT field. 25% were continuing their education.

Intended Outcomes 2: CIT graduates will compare favorably with other IT professionals in academic preparation.

Assessment Criteria: Students will sit for standardized tests made available by Microsoft Press or other publishers and score in the upper 60% range.

Results of Outcomes Activity:

2006-2007 / Met / 95% of the students scored 60 or better on the exam. The mean was 79.1, median 80 and standard deviation was 11.16.

Intended Outcomes 3: Graduates will have access to information about various career opportunities in the CIT field.

Assessment Criteria: Students will be involved in student user groups/clubs and/or will have opportunities to hear IT guest speakers, take field trips and network with future employers.

Results of Outcomes Activity:

2006-2007 / Met / 100% of CIT majors were given the opportunity to meet with IT and HR representatives who spoke about IT career paths and opportunities in their organization.
The most attended guest speaker was the Director of IT at the CIA. Students were allowed to give presentations to three senior CIA administrators in the IT field.
Additionally, all majors were offered the opportunity to tour Marathon Petroleum Corporation, llc in Findlay, Ohio, Cooper Tire and Rubber Corp. and meet with IT managers and the HR department.

Intended Outcomes 4: IT faculty will be up to date in their field.

Assessment Criteria: All faculty members will participate in seminars conferences and professional organizations.

Results of Outcomes Activity:

2006-2007: / See: Scholarly and Professional Activities. On file at the School of Business and in VPAA office.

Intended Outcomes 5: Make the students think critically by giving students tools to understand and analyze “problems”. Incorporate skills and knowledge students have learned from a variety of courses that they have taken across the curriculum during CIT 355.

Situations that force the student to determine the actual problem, analyze the scenario(s) presented, develop alternative courses of actions to “solve” the problem, create an appropriate spreadsheet model for the scenario and solution, and create a professional report to present the findings. These cases incorporate many areas of business (ex. Marketing, finance, economics, production etc.), and students are required to use knowledge from these areas in the “solving” of the scenario problem.

Assessment Criteria: Case studies: Appropriate analysis (25%), Correct “answers” (20%). Decisions based on the answers obtained (If “answers” are not exact, then did the student make the correct decision assuming the “answer” was correct. (30%) Creating a professional report to convey the results of their analysis and “solutions” (This includes proper terminology, grammar, spelling etc.) (25%) Students are generally required to create a preliminary “solution” that can be reviewed by the professor to make sure the students are headed in the right direction.

Expect students to score a grade of B or better in these case studies.

Results of Outcomes Activity:

2006-2007 / Met / All 17 students completed the case studies with a B or better during the Spring 2007 semester. The mean score was an 88%.

Intended Outcomes 6:

Develop student ability to assess needs, define problems and research the appropriate information systems solutions based being sensitive to organizational structure, users, ethics, culture, and inherent system constraints.

Assessment Criteria: 80% of CIT 312 final research projects should earn an 80% or better.

Results of Outcomes Activity:

2006-2007 / Met / 81.7 % of 60 students scored an 80% or better with a mean score of 88%.

Section Three:

Analysis and Action Plans:

Plan of Action – Intended Outcomes # 5: Keep up with the (CIT 355) case study approach as this has been deemed to be a very appropriate and effective way to make the students think analytically, formulate the scenario in a way that can be “programmed” and report the results in a professional format.

Plan of Action – Intended Outcomes # 6: Continue using assessment in CIT 312.