Business Administration

Program Student Learning Outcomes Assessment
(AY 2014-2015)

AY 2013-2014

AY 2012-2013

AY 2011-2012

Program Student Learning Outcomes(PSLOs)

At the completion of Business Administration Program, the student will be able to:

1. Demonstrate basic knowledge of each of the functional areas of business – accounting, management, marketing, economics, and finance – by emphasizing their importance in an organization and describing their interrelationship in the organization’s attempt to achieve its objectives.
2. Demonstrate basic knowledge and skill in the use of cost and managerial accounting concepts and techniques as management tools for planning, controlling, evaluating performance and making decisions.
3. Demonstrate basic knowledge and skill in business mathematics and elementary statistics by accurately performing common business computations, statistical data presentation and analysis.
4. Demonstrate basic knowledge and skill in intercultural writing and speaking appropriate for business.
5. Demonstrate a basic understanding of the legal environment and ethical challenges confronting business in general and in the FSM, from both local and global perspectives.

PSLO Assessment Report Summary

Looking Back:

During assessment cycle 2013-2014, the Business Administration Program assessed PSLO 1. The division discussed a collaborative assessment activity to measure student’s basic knowledge in the fundamental areas of business. The plan, however, did not materialize because it coincided with the program review that took up much of faculty time. Instead of using the collaborative activity to assess PLSO 1, assessments were done at the course level. So in 2014-2015 assessment cycle, the division met and discussed improvement plans to make sure the collaborative assessment activity was successfully implemented. In early January the faculty met again to prepare a mapping document that specified how the PSLOs would be met at the course level. The document indicated who was in charge, and when each assessment strategy would be carried out.

What we looked at:

In addition to PSLO 1, we also assessed PSLO 3, and PSLO 5.

The collaborative activity used to assess PLSO 1 required students to perform the skills they learned from management, marketing, economics, finance, and accounting. The BU101 and BU260 students were required to come up with a simple business plan, the BU270 students were required to come up with a marketing plan, while students of EC220 were asked to collect data needed to record the transactions and prepare the basic financial statements. The success of the collaboration between the students emphasized the importance of each course in the organization and how their interrelationship is important in the achieving the organization’s objectives.

Assessment results from BU250 class and BU/MS110 were used to assess PLSO 3. Students under the BU/MS110 class were asked to do a pricing activity while the students under BU250 were asked to collect the receipts from any group during the collaborative activity and produce a cash flow statement from the receipts collected. The average score the students got on the rubrics was used to assess the PLSO.

The assessment results of the reporting activities under the BU271 class were used to assess PSLO 5. Two reports were required from the students. The first report covered topics on the FSM constitution while the second report covered concepts on the law of contracts and negotiable instruments. A rubric was used to measure student performance on the report.

What we found:

PSLO 1

Enrollment by Major and Campus

CSLO	Did not meet expectations	Meet Expectations	Exceeded Expectations	Total
BU101	12.0%	50.0%	38.0%	100%
BU250		87.5%	12.5%	100%
BU271		70.0%	30.0%	100%
EC220	25.0%	75.0%		100%
AC220	20.0%	80.0%		100%

The results from the rubrics show that among the fundamental areas of business for which the students were assessed, three courses have percentages of students who did meet the expectation.

Twelve percent of the BU101 students assessed did not meet our expectation in demonstrating their basic knowledge in management because some members of their group who were assigned vital tasks did not show up on the day of the activity forcing the other members to take emergency measures that were not in the plan. This affected their accomplishment of the expected outcome. Twenty five percent of the students did not demonstrate their basic skills in economics because they failed to identify costs and profit terms in their computation of economic profit. They also found it difficult to identify their implicit costs, which made their computation of economic profit incorrect. Finally, 20.0% of the students from the accounting did not demonstrate their basic skills in accounting because most or all of the source documents are incorrectly analyzed and not neatly filed. The students’ ability to meet this outcome was seriously hampered by quality of documents collected from selected participating groups.

The result of the collaborative assessment activity show that 88.6% of the students were successful at demonstrating their basic knowledge of each of the functional areas of business – accounting, management, marketing, economics, and finance – by emphasizing their importance in an organization and describing their interrelationship in the organization’s attempt to achieve its objectives.

PSLO 3

The results of the pricing and cash flow assessment activities show that 85% percent of the students were successful at demonstrating basic knowledge and skill in business mathematics and elementary statistics by accurately performing common business computations, statistical data presentation and analysis.

PSLO 5

The results of the reporting activity show that 100% of the students were successful in demonstrating their basic understanding of the legal environment and ethical challenges confronting business in general and in the FSM, from both local and global perspectives.

What we are planning to work on:

PSLO 1

Planning

• Inform students about the activity during the first two weeks to give an idea of their responsibilities.
• Post a countdown at the Business Administration office door to remind faculty and students of the due date of each activity.
• Communicate the date of the event to IDAP to include in the calendar of activities.

Management

• Improve collaboration between students.
• Implement control functions to make sure the students are on schedule on the tasks given to them.

Closing Gaps

• Explain the significance of the activity to the students. Share the rubrics and explain how the rubrics will be used to assess each student’s work.
• Give a clear explanation of why students are doing the collaborative activity and what is expected from them.
• Ask student feedback on how to better improve the collaborative assessment activity.
• Use assessment results from the BU250 class only.

PSLO 3

• Conduct reviews on concepts in algebra to prepare students for the application of these concepts to statistics, economics, and finance. Give more practice activities and give at least one authentic assessment in each course that measures the math skills of students.

PSLO 5

• Alternative Learning activity. Students will attend one of the hearings either in the FSM or State court and write a report about what they have learned from the experience.
• Group activity- Students will conduct an interview with one of their congressmen or senators and gather information about the functions and powers of congress or senate, how a bill becomes a law, any bill that a congressman or senator being interviewed has written or that became a law, recent laws/ statutes in the FSM and/ or any issues/ challenges facing the House of Representatives or the Senate.

Recommendations for students:

PLO 1

• Get involved early in the process by coordinating with the groups that they have identified to be associated with, so that they will be in a position to make suggestions to the group in matters involving accounting.
• Encourage students to sell products other than food.

PLO 3

• Review on concepts learned in algebra before taking the class.
• Rely less on calculators when making simple mathematical operations.

PLO 5

• Read articles on issues on the laws of FSM.
• Be creative in looking for references.

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Program Data Sheet
Spring 2014

Datasheet Spring 2013

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Enrollment by Major and Campus

Major:	Degree	Term	Chuuk	Kosrae	National	Pohnpei	Yap	Students
Business Administration	AS	Fall 2011	46	17	148	42	20	273
Business Administration	AS	Fall 2012	35	15	147	27	16	240
Business Administration	AS	Fall 2013	28	11	144	18	19	220
Business Administration	AS	Spring 2012	37	16	123	33	23	232
Business Administration	AS	Spring 2013	25	6	127	17	11	186
Business Administration	AS	Spring 2014	23	4	132	18	15	192

Credits by Major and Campus

Major:	Degree	Term	Chuuk	Kosrae	National	Pohnpei	Yap	Credits
Business Administration	AS	Fall 2011	581	179	1874	521	220	3375
Business Administration	AS	Fall 2012	407	154	1792	282	168	2803
Business Administration	AS	Fall 2013	347	105	1784	196	212	2644
Business Administration	AS	Spring 2011	140	90	1742.5	261	169	2402.5
Business Administration	AS	Spring 2012	477	147	1534	349	249	2756
Business Administration	AS	Spring 2013	290	34	1647	186	141	2298
Business Administration	AS	Spring 2014	278	35	1609	188	171	2281

Credits by Program and Campus

Program	Term	Chuuk	Kosrae	National	Pohnpei	Yap	Credits
Business Administration (AS)	Fall 2011	114		1032	83		1229
Business Administration (AS)	Fall 2012	55		1058	109		1222
Business Administration (AS)	Fall 2013	74		1013	80		1167
Business Administration (AS)	Spring 2011	27		1106	39		1172
Business Administration (AS)	Spring 2012	112	9	979	90		1190
Business Administration (AS)	Spring 2013	21		1048	101		1170
Business Administration (AS)	Spring 2014	71		1079	76		1226

Credits Enrolled, Attempted and Earned(averages)

Major	Degree	Term	CredEnrollAvg	CredAttAvg	CredEarnAvg	TermGPAAvg
Business Administration	AS	Fall 2011	12.4	10.5	8.7	2.31
Business Administration	AS	Fall 2012	11.7	10.5	8.3	2.07
Business Administration	AS	Fall 2013	12.0	10.6	9.3	2.34
Business Administration	AS	Spring 2011	12.6	11.1	9.3	2.33
Business Administration	AS	Spring 2012	11.9	10.3	8.5	2.10
Business Administration	AS	Spring 2013	12.4	10.4	8.3	1.89
Business Administration	AS	Spring 2014	11.9	10.2	8.8	2.15

Program Sections, Enrollment Ratio and Average Class Size

Program	Term	Section	EnrollMax	Enrollment	EnrollRatio	AvgClassSize
Business Administration (AS)	Fall 2011	16	403	355	88.1%	22.2
Business Administration (AS)	Fall 2012	17	419	363	86.6%	21.4
Business Administration (AS)	Fall 2013	17	409	348	85.1%	20.5
Business Administration (AS)	Spring 2011	15	383	327	85.4%	21.8
Business Administration (AS)	Spring 2012	16	390	322	82.6%	20.1
Business Administration (AS)	Spring 2013	17	390	316	81.0%	18.6
Business Administration (AS)	Spring 2014	18	428	379	88.6%	21.1

Persistence and Retention (new full time students)

Major Description	Degree	New Students FT 2011_3	Students 2012_1	Students 2012_3	Persistence Spring 2012	Retention Fall 2012
Business Administration	AS	72	59	40	81.9%	55.6%

Major	Degree	New FT Fall 2012	Persisted Spring 2013	Retained Fall 2013	Persistence Spring 2013	Retention Fall 2013
Business Administration	AS	40	35	30	81.9%	55.6%

Major	Degree	New FT Fall 2013	Persisted Spring 2014	Retained Fall 2014	Persistence Spring 2014	Retention Fall 2014
Business Administration	AS	34	32		94.1%	0.0%

Course Completion & Withdrawals (Major)

Major	Degree	Term	Students	ABCorP%	ABCDorP%	W%
Business Administration	AS	Fall 2011	898	64.4%	76.5%	6.2%
Business Administration	AS	Fall 2012	1059	65.0%	75.6%	7.7%
Business Administration	AS	Fall 2013	844	70.7%	78.8%	8.3%
Business Administration	AS	Spring 2011	782	69.9%	78.6%	8.4%
Business Administration	AS	Spring 2012	892	65.4%	77.8%	8.4%
Business Administration	AS	Spring 2013	751	59.5%	70.8	15.6%
Business Administration	AS	Spring 2014	737	68.2%	74.8	11.7%

Course Completion & Withdrawals (Program)

Program	Term	Students	ABCorP%	ABCDorP%	W%
Business Administration (AS)	Fall 2011	381	68.2%	81.6%	6.8%
Business Administration (AS)	Fall 2012	384	58.3%	79.2%	5.5%
Business Administration (AS)	Fall 2013	364	77.5%	87.1%	4.4%
Business Administration (AS)	Spring 2011	359	71.9%	79.1%	8.1%
Business Administration (AS)	Spring 2012	365	70.4%	82.5%	11.5%
Business Administration (AS)	Spring 2013	362	59.7%	72.4%	12.7%
Business Administration (AS)	Spring 2014	379	78.4%	82.8%	8.7%

Graduates

Major	Degree	AY2010/11	AY2011/12	AY2012/13	AY2013/14
Business Administration	AS	35	33	27

Graduate Rates

Major	Degree	Cohort	New Full Students	Graduation Rate 100%	Graduation Rate 150%	Graduation Rate 200%
Business Administration	AS	Fall 2008 FT	36	0.0%	25.0%	36.1%
Business Administration	AS	Fall 2009 FT	30	3.3%	26.7%	33.3%
Business Administration	AS	Fall 2010 FT	40	2.5%	10.0%
Business Administration	AS <1 FT	40

• "Program" information is based on Dickerson's concept of a "program" as expending resoruces and is linked to courses owned by a program from TracDat
• Graduation rates are based on Fall new students(full time) cohorts that are tracked at 100%, 150%, and 200%
• Retention rates are based on Fall new students (full time) cohorts who return the following fall semester
• Persistence rates are based on Fall new students (full time) cohorts who return the following spring semester

 

Unit Assessment Report

Report Period: 2013-2014