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Academic Year : 2009-2010 Program: BS Information Technology (IT) Provide a brief description of the assessment process used including strengths, challenges and planned improvements: This is the third year of the program and several transfer students have graduated in the last two years. Some changes were made this year to reflect changes in the IT industry including the rise of IT in health care, the increased use of interactive media, and the new field of software quality assurance. Students will be evaluated on their competence to work in the regional IT industry, including both government and commercial settings. This includes looking at students’ ability to complete an internship and to obtain a meaningful job in the field. In addition, a project, typical of work in the workplace is used to available the technical performance of each student. The standard of 70% was used for this outcome and all factors measured were met. However, programming proficiency, and its reliance on critical thinking still maintains difficult for several students. The second learning outcome related to the need for students to acquire skills which are marketable in an ever changing field. The area selected was software testing (quality assurance), a field selected by the IT Advisory Board as germane to today's IT workplace.. The new course (IT355) was offered for the first time in Spring 2010 and was used as the focus of this outcome. Students did not meet the standard for their requirements documentation in their junior year. As this is a precursor to their internship, this needs to be addressed to ensure their success in the workplace. The third learning outcome assessed related to ethics, a kingpin of education at the School of Business Administration at Marymount University. The outcome was measured in MSC345, Project Management, as this course discusses the decision-making process. Students, for the most part, made good ethical decisions but were often unable to articulate the reasons behind their decision. Further emphasis will be placed on ethics in earlier IT courses (IT110 and IT210) and the course PH305, Business Ethics, will be made a prerequisite to MSC345. The increased focus on writing throughout the program should also assist in this process. Three sources of information were used for all three outcomes: a classroom exercise corresponding to each outcome, the Internship Program Semester Reports from Fall 2009 and Spring 2010 prepared by David Pomeroy, SBA Director of Business Learning, and the Graduating Student Survey conducted by the Office of Institutional Effectiveness.. Describe how the program implemented its planned improvements from last year: The department developed seminars for the sophomore, junior and senior level and these will run in Fall 2010 when students will be first required to take them based on the revised degree plan. Working with its advisory group, the department examined each of the courses in the program and their relevance to entry level jobs. Software testing was identified as a key area and is included n this year's evaluation. 4
Academic Year : 2009-2010 Program: BS Information Technology (IT) The department obtained approval for its Inquiry-based learning courses and for its writing intensive courses. In addition, the introductory IT class (IT110) was revised and approved as a global course. The teaching of these courses will begin in this revised format in Fall 2010. Provide a response to last year’s University Assessment Committee review of the program’s learning assessment report: The main comment from the Assessment Committee was that many of the outcomes were not learning outcomes. The outcomes have been rewritten to include more "action" words. 5
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