The School of Business established a set of program goals and outcomes and collects assessment data to measure student achievement of these outcomes. In 2005-2006, we assessed outcomes related to knowledge and skills in areas of business. We used course-embedded assessment techniques to gather data on forty-seven outcomes in sixteen undergraduate courses. We are happy to report 100-percent participation of resident faculty in course-embedded assessment.

We collected assessment data in the Fall 2005 and the Spring 2006 semesters. The faculty used benchmarks to evaluate the data, and establish whether the student learning in an outcome is Excellent, Satisfactory, or Needs Improvement. Overall, the performance of students in most outcomes is Satisfactory. Seven outcomes were seen as Excellent in Fall 2005, and seven outcomes were Excellent again in Spring 2006. Four outcomes were identified as needing improvement in Fall 2005, one outcome was still needing improvement in Spring 2006. For the outcomes that needed improvement, the faculty developed changes in course structure aimed at improving student achievement.

The School also used the ETS Major Field Test in Business to measure the knowledge and skills of all graduates in Fall 2005 and Spring 2006. The results of the standardized ETS test taken by the graduates provide external validation to our course-embedded assessment data. The School’s graduates performed very strongly on this national test. In particular, the average score of IU Kokomo students was in the 95 th percentile in Fall 2005 and the 85 th percentile in Spring 2006 compared to all institutions participating in the ETS testing nationally. This sample includes 553 institutions and 143,349 students between 2003 and 2006.