Name of Study	ES&RM -- Assessment of Student Learning, 2006
Study Date	05/31/2006
Researcher Name	Donald Rodriguez, Ph.D.
Researcher Email	donald.rodriguez@csuci.edu
Researcher Phone	805.437-8494

Executive Summary

This year, the ESRM program assessed the degree to which students can collect, organize, analyze, interpret and present quantitative and qualitative data. Students enrolled in their capstone course complete an empirical independent project and create a poster summarizing their projects. This year, ESRM and ESRM-affiliated faculty independently scored student presentations (for a total of 38 assessments) at the end of the Spring 2006 semester.  Both the printed poster and student responses to reviewers’ questions were considered in this evaluation and given an aggregate score from 1 (unacceptable) to 5 (excellent).  Aggregate program assessments (grand mean=4.64, SD=0.45) averaged between “Very Good” (4) and “Excellent” (5). From this, ESRM concluded that students had achieved this learning outcome. Even so, ESRM determined that students’ greatest shortcomings identified for improvement were aspects of the final technical presentation. In response to these findings faculty have developed a five-point plan to modify the program in ways designed to improve students’ skills in this area.

Citations
ES&RM Report (PDF, 56KB)

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