Assessment Highlights for the M.B.A. Program

The School of Business established a set of program goals and outcomes for its M.B.A. program and continues collection of assessment data to measure student achievement of these outcomes. In the past school year 2006-07, we used course-embedded assessment techniques to gather data on thirty outcomes in eight core M.B.A. courses. The faculty used benchmarks to evaluate the data, and establish whether the student learning in an outcome is Excellent, Satisfactory, or Needs Improvement. Student performance was strong in 2006-07. Fourteen outcomes demonstrated Excellent performance, while the other sixteen outcomes were Satisfactory.

The School also used the ETS Major Field Test for M.B.A. to measure the knowledge and skills of all M.B.A. graduates in Spring 2007. 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, where their performance can be compared to graduates of other top M.B.A. programs. In particular, the average score of IU Kokomo M.B.A. students was in the 85 th percentile in Spring 2006 compared to all institutions participating in the ETS testing - 109 institutions and 3,530 students. The students performed better than the national average for M.B.A. graduates in all five areas measured by the ETS test.

In 2007-2008, we continue to collect course-embedded assessment data for all M.B.A. program outcomes. All graduates also take the ETS Major Field Test in the Spring semester. The assessment results are continually evaluated by the Assessment Committee of the School, and faculty in the appropriate areas.