Name of Study	Chemistry -- Assessment of Student Learning, 2006
Study Date	05/31/2006
Researcher Name	Philip Hampton, Ph.D.
Researcher Email	philip.hampton@csuci.edu
Researcher Phone	805.437-8869

Executive Summary

Chemistry has developed a comprehensive five-step assessment plan of their learning outcomes. This year, the Chemistry program chose to assess the degree to which students are able to explain Geometric Structure as related to chemistry, and discriminate when it can be applied to a chemical problem. Using embedded assessment techniques, they seeded exams in six appropriate courses with different types of questions (multiple choice, short answer) and with assignments (literature review, student survey) designed to provide appropriate data for their evaluation and review. Based on the assessment data collected from students in six Chemistry courses, the Chemistry program determined that ”students met the outcome at a ‘passing’ level.  In all of the classes, at least 83% of the students demonstrated that they could partially meet the learning outcome.” Further, based on this assessment cycle, Chemistry plans on changing their assessment strategy to make it more useful.

Citations
Chemistry Report (PDF, 664KB)

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