Fifth Year Maintenance Report - University of Minnesota

Learning Goals
Measurement/
Methodology
Date Last
Measured
BBA Program Learning Goals Assessment
Results
Changes needed in the assessment
measurement
Other changes
needed (program,
course)
How changes were
implemented
CATEGORY: DEVELOP MANAGEMENT-SPECIFIC KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS
Management mance was > +2. However, there was no recommendation
as to how the instrument
could be improved, given
these findings.
sider teaching improvements.
However,
no specific recommendations
were
made with respect to
these improvements.
1h. Acquire
knowledge of
the core areas
of Business:
Strategic Management
Pre-test/post-test of key constructs
in MGTS 4481 (Strategic
Management)
Fall 2007
Three of the targets were
achieved. The only one
not met was that the pretest
pooled mean score
was not < 5.
Two questions on the instrument
will be reworded in order to eliminate
problematic wording of the
current questions and two questions
on the instrument will be
replaced with new questions before
the next assessment round
(Fall 2010). In addition, it was
decided to voluntarily re-administer
the revised test instrument in
the Fall of 2008 to ensure the
test instrument better captures
what the instructors want it to before
the next round to formally
administer it.
The instrument included
a question
that required familiarity
with Porter’s
Five Forces. Students
claimed to
broadly understand
the concept. However,
after discussion
of Porter’s Model in
one of the courses, it
became clear that
students were familiar
with the term, but
did not really understand
it in detail. In
the future, instructors
will need to focus on
shifting students’
knowledge from
awareness to understanding
with respect
to Porter’s Five
Forces.
Changes in the instrument
and in the
course content have
been made.
Fall 2008
A case study was used to
measure the achievement
of this goal. The target
was a median and mean
of 3 or above on a 5-point
scale. The desired results
were obtained.
It is recommended that students
in the future be given the assessment
rubrics before completing
the assignment. It is also
recommended that in the future
multiple assessors should be
used to analyze the case so that
reliability scores can then be
computed. Finally, more detailed
information in the appendices
should be given in the future.
Additional examples
or training should be
given to increase the
reliability of the assessment.
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