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session students are on campus. This course focuses on archival methods and requires students tocomplete and present a paper that is a replication of a published accounting research paper. Thesecond change was to replace the Seminar in Behavioral Research with a Seminar in ContemporaryAccounting Research. This change allows for a further focus on research topics that individual facultymembers are pursuing as well as allowing for introduction of more specialized research areas such asauditing or corporate governance.At this point the programs in the Department of Accounting are mature and relatively fixed.We do not anticipate major changes in the programs in the foreseeable future. Of course, thedepartment will continue to refine its offerings as the environment changes.Assessment Tools and Procedures: Summarize in a brief statement learning goals foreach accounting degree program, along with a list of the assessment tools, procedures,and results used to demonstrate progress toward achievement of the mission.Assurance of learning (AOL) has been a major focus of the university, college and department.At UTSA the AOL program is guided by broad rules established by the Office of the Provost and overseenby a Director of Assessment. The College of Business has a Director of Assessment who is responsiblefor the administration of AOL in the college. Each department has responsibility for development andimplementation of its AOL program in conformity with the requirements imposed by the university andcollege.Assessment reports are prepared each long semester. In some courses, particularly at theundergraduate level, assessment is done every semester. Most assessment at the graduate level is donein courses offered only once a year so a complete assessment cycle is completed annually. Programgoals are developed by the faculty and coordinated by the relevant program committees, theUndergraduate Program Committee, Graduate (Master’s) Program Committee and the PhD ProgramCommittee. Learning goals, learning objectives and assessment methods are coordinated across multisectioncourses by the instructors in those courses. In courses that have only one instructor, theinstructor develops these items in consultation with the Program Committee. Assessment reports areprepared by the instructors of courses in which assessment takes place within two weeks of the end ofeach semester. These are submitted to the Department Chair who compiles the reports and submitsthem to the faculty committees and the Director of Assessment for the College of Business. The AOLdatabase is updated each semester and becomes part of the university’s assessment database.The Peer Review Team for the last AACSB visit noted the following item to be addressed:“Some of the department’s learning goals for the master’s and doctoral program are notmeasurable and some do not satisfy the definition of a learning goal. The faculty shouldrestructure the goals to assure that they have carefully defined measures for success and aformalized process for closing the loop.”The Department of Accounting has addressed these issues and continues to refine and improveits AOL program. Under the Assessment of Learning guidelines established by the university, eachdegree program has between two and four essential student learning goals. Two student learningoutcomes are determined for each essential student learning goal. Each of these outcomes is assessedusing an assessment method. Direct methods are preferred and at least one of the assessment methodsmust be direct. Specific criteria are established for meeting the goal and depending on how often a37
course in which an assessment method is performed, the assessment may be done every semester oronly in one long semester a year.Each degree program is reviewed below.BBA in AccountingThe essential student learning goals for the BBA in Accounting are the following.1. Graduates of the UTSA BBA in Accounting program will demonstrate the requisite technicalaccounting skills (including double-entry accounting and the accounting equation, application oftaxation rules and auditing procedures) to pursue careers in accounting.2. Graduates of the UTSA BBA in Accounting program will demonstrate the ability to communicate(using written memos, reports and analysis, and oral presentations) accounting information effectivelyto supervisors, peers and clients.3. Graduates of the UTSA BBA in Accounting program will demonstrate sufficient skills in the use ofaccounting related technology to be able to research, analyze, and display information in a professionalaccounting setting.The supporting information for learning goals is presented in Table 6.2. The assessments shown in Table6.2 are performed every long semester. Each instructor is required to summarize performance in his orher class and submit a report to the Department Chair within two weeks of the end of a long semester.The results of these assessments for the Fall 2010 and Spring 2011 semesters are presented in Table 6.3.38
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