Georgia Highlands College Goal Assessment Report Form

Unit/Team: Business	Reported By: J. Reiners / J. Gillespie
Date Submitted: 06-01-06	Assessment Period: 2005-2006
Related College Goal: Provide core curriculum and transfer programs
Unit/Team Goal: Students will demonstrate a basic knowledge and perspective of business.
Expected Outcome: Students will demonstrate understanding and familiarity with basic business terms and concepts.
Outcome Assessment: In Introduction to Business classes (BUSA 1105) students will be able to define, identify, and apply key business terms and concepts across the disciplines of management, marketing, accounting, information technology, finance, and economics.
Performance Targets: Primary Performance Target: 70% of students will improve on post-test of terms and concepts Secondary Performance Target: 70% will earn a 70C or better on portion of tests which assesses understanding of terms and concepts
Summary of Data Collected (Performance Results): Primary Performance Target: 88% of students improved, 6% stayed the same, 6% did not improve. By location: Rome: 100% improvement, 0% neutral, & 0% not improve [n=9]; Acworth: 82% improvement, 9% neutral, and 9% not improved [n=23] Secondary Performance Target: 50% of students scored a 70 or better on portion of test which assesses understanding of terms and concepts. By location: Rome: 55% scored 70 or better, 45% scored 70 or less [n=9], Acworth: 47% scored 70 or better, 53% scored 70 or less [n=23]
Recommended Actions: Primary performance Target met. No further action required. Secondary performance Target not met. Recommended actions include: 1. seek to improve better response rate on post-test and collect data across more locations of institution 2. re-evaluate the use of the secondary measure and explore the use of another secondary measure which may better support the primary objective
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Georgia Highlands College Goal Assessment Report Form

Unit/Team: Business	Reported By: J. Reiners, D. Salley / J. Gillespie
Date Submitted: 06-01-06	Assessment Period: 2005-2006
Related College Goal: Provide core curriculum and transfer programs.
Unit/Team Goal: Students will demonstrate a basic knowledge and perspective of economics.
Expected Outcome: Students will demonstrate understanding of the basic principles of economics.
Outcome Assessment: In economics classes (ECON 2105 and ECON 2106) pre-test and post-test results will be used as well as a National Economics Literacy Test to assess application of principles.
Performance Targets: Primary Performance Target: 70% of students will improve on post-test. Secondary Performance Target: 70% will score above the mean on the National Economics Literacy test as developed by the Federal Reserve.
Summary of Data Collected (Performance Results): Primary Performance Target: 79.4% of students improved, 10.3% stayed the same, 10.3% did not improve (F05 for 4 macros & 3 micros). By location: Rome: 93.75% improvement, 6.35% neutral, & 0% not improved [n=32]; Cartersville: 74.5% improvement, 12% neutral, and 13.5% not improved [n=94. Secondary Performance Target: survey not administered
Recommended Actions: Primary Performance Target met. No further action required. Secondary Performance Target not met: Re-evaluate the use of National Economics Literacy test as a secondary measure
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Georgia Highlands College Goal Assessment Report Form

Unit/Team: Business	Reported By: B. Nolen / J. Gillespie
Date Submitted: 06-01-06	Assessment Period: 2005-2006
Related College Goal: Provide core curriculum and transfer programs
Unit/Team Goal: Students will demonstrate a basic knowledge and perspective of business.
Expected Outcome: Students will demonstrate a mastery of the fundamental concepts of financial accounting (ACCT 2101).
Outcome Assessment: Students will demonstrate the mastery of fundamental financial accounting concepts (ACCT 2101) through the preparation of financial statements (income statement, statement of retained earnings, and balance sheet), identification of account balance characteristics, and analysis of transactions.
Performance Targets: Primary Performance Target: Students will demonstrate the ability properly prepare the financial statements from provided data (account balances) by achieving an average of 70% across the class. Secondary Performance Target: 70% of the students will correctly identify (70% of points allotted) the characteristics of selected accounts. Tertiary Performance Target: 70% of the students will correctly analyze (70% of points allotted) the selected transactions.
Summary of Data Collected (Performance Results): Primary Performance Target: Each course section achieved an average of 70% (85% Overall, 83% Cartersville [n=52], 83% Marietta [n=29], 91% Rome [n=34]. Secondary Performance Target: 70% of the students correctly identified the characteristics of selected accounts (90% Cartersville [n=52], 73 % Marietta [n=29], Rome data not collected for secondary objective. Tertiary Performance Target: 70% of the students correctly analyzed selected transactions (88 % Cartersville [n=52], 97% Marietta [n=29], Rome data not collected for the secondary objective)
Recommended Actions: Primary Performance Target met. No further action required. Secondary Performance Target not met: Collect data for the Rome campus. Tertiary Performance Target not met: Collect data for the Rome campus.
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Georgia Highlands College Goal Assessment Report Form

Unit/Team: Business	Reported By: B. Nolen / J. Gillespie
Date Submitted: 06-01-06	Assessment Period: 2005-2006
Related College Goal: provide core curriculum and transfer programs
Unit/Team Goal: Students will demonstrate a basic knowledge and perspective of business and economics
Expected Outcome: Students will demonstrate the ability to employ managerial accounting concepts in conjunction with technical and critical thinking skills to solve capital budgeting problem.
Outcome Assessment: Students in ACCT 2102 (Managerial Accounting) will prepare a capital budget using technology, critical thinking, and managerial accounting principles.
Performance Targets: Primary Performance Target: 70% of the students will accumulate 70% of the points possible on the project Secondary Performance Target: 70% of the students will be able to correctly apply (70% or greater of points) capital budgeting concepts in the problem Tertiary Performance Target: 70% of the students will be able to use Microsoft Excel fundamentals (70% or greater of points) in preparing the problem Quaternary Performance Target: 70% of the students will be able to demonstrate (70% or greater of points) critical thinking skills when analyzing the results of the capital budgeting problem.
Summary of Data Collected (Performance Results): Primary Performance Target: 100% of students scored above 70% (100% for all campuses overall n=70, Cartersville n=47. Marietta n=47, Rome n=26). Secondary Performance Target: 100% of the students were able to correctly apply capital budgeting concepts (100% for all campuses overall n=70, Cartersville n=47. Marietta n=47, Rome n=26). Tertiary Performance Target: 100% of the students will be able to use Microsoft Excel fundamentals (100% for all campuses overall n=70, Cartersville n=47. Marietta n=47, Rome n=26). Quaternary Performance Target: 82% of students were able to demonstrate critical thinking skills (81% Cartersville [n=47], 94% Marietta [n=17], 89% Rome [n=26]
Recommended Actions: Primary Performance Target met. No further action required. Secondary Performance Target met. No further action required. Tertiary Performance Target met. No further action required. Quaternary Performance Target met. No further action required.
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