STUDENT LEARNING ASSESSMENT PLAN - Marymount University

Academic Year : 2008/2009 Program: Interior Design Undergraduate
Learning outcome 4: There are currently no set up for assessment for this outcome in place. The academic year 2009/2010
evaluation tools are being put into to place to assess this outcome.
Learning outcome 5: Internship Employer Evaluations. Interior design students complete internships for a total of 6 credit hours.
Employer evaluations meet the needs of interior standards for interior design minimum proficiency as defined by both NCIDQ
(National Council for Interior Design Qualification) and CIDA (Council for Interior Design Accreditation) practice analysis assessment
and have been created as an assessment tool for student’s application of knowledge and skills in workplace environment. MU interior
design student’s internships are conducted at commercial firms, architectural firms, residential firms, retail firms and showrooms.
(See Attachment : ID 400 Employer Evaluation)
The employer evaluations only give a small “snap shot” of what the students are learning in the area of contract administration and
business practice. A more thorough assessment of this learning outcome would to be to concentrate on the course ID 436: Business
Practice and define some assessment tools to evaluate further these learning outcomes. Fall 2010, the mid-term and final exam will
also be used as assessment tool for this learning outcome and additional learning outcomes identified in program review for CIDA
accreditation..
Learning Outcome 1: Students will capably use quantitative and qualitative skills to evaluate and assess project goals and
objectives.
Programmatic inquiry is the heart of design problem – thus, the programs main “inquiry outcome”. Programming is two pronged –
discovery of information both qualitative and quantitative that is tested in the following stages: qualitative in the schematic stage and
quantitative in the design development stage.
This “inquiry outcome” in the future assessment 2011/2012 will be assessed in the following courses:
ID 201: Studio I. Students are first introduced to the foundations of the design phases to evaluating design environments,
human factors, end user needs and beginning ADA, universal and building, life safety codes.
ID 303: Studio 4. Students deal with a larger, more complex project in this studio classroom. Incorporated are more variables
of end users within the space and components of human factors where ADA , universal, and building, life safety codes.
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