Program Educational Objective Actions for 2007

Evaluation Process

·          Employer Surveys continue to be difficult to obtain because employers are increasingly hesitant to provide confidential information.  Therefore, the employer survey will be abandoned in favor of interview input from interviewers and our alumni who employ SDSM&T graduates.  The established relationships we have with interviewers and employing alumni will promote the unfettered input.

·          Employer survey questions continue to be aligned closely with the Program Objectives rather than with the currently alignment with Program Outcomes.

·          Alumni survey questions are now aligned closely with the Program Objectives.

·          Alumni surveys are to go online using Survey Monkey.

·          Survey Monkey needs to be written to complete objective evaluation for SDSM&T Departments, SDSM&T Student.

·          The Student Satisfaction Survey should be renamed the Non-Program Alumni Satisfaction Survey and be limited to those non-program alumni since they are surveyed elsewhere.

 

Implementation Plan

·          Populate the Advisory Boar with employers and use input from the Alumni Survey and the board to evaluate program objectives.

·          Rewrite the Alumni Survey to include direct align with program objectives.

·          Purchase (subscribe to) Survey Monkey.

·          Determine if the SS-I Survey is worth the effort and, if so, work for better participation and definition of the results.

 

 

Objective Improvement

·          A new President will likely restate and reformat the institutional Goals and Objectives.  Therefore there will be a need to remap the Program Objectives to any restated Institutional Goals and Objectives.

·          Communication skills may suffer during program faculty transition.  After transition, the program should establish common understanding of writing and oral communication goals.

·          The effectiveness of the newly implemented modules on ethics, professionalism, and global issues need to be assessed.

 

Implementation Plan

·          Participate in campus visioning and offer input so as to maintain our establish objectives.

·          Train new faculty in writing expectations and procedures.

·          Assess ethics, professionalism, and global issues on the Senior Exit Exam to assure alumni are prepared to achieve the program educational objectives related to these topics.