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STUDENT LEARNING ASSESSMENT PROGRAM SUMMARY FORM AY 2007-2008 Please complete a separate worksheet for each academic program (major, minor) at each level (undergraduate, graduate) in your Degree and Criminology Minor Program Name: department. Worksheets are due to CASA this year by June 13, 2008. Worksheets should be sent electronically to [email protected] and should also be submitted to your college Submitted By: Richard Wandling and Gary Foster dean. For information about assessment or help with your assessment plans, visit the Assessment webpage at http://www.eiu.edu/~assess/ or contact Karla Sanders in CASA at 581-6056. PART ONE

What are the learning How, where, and when are they What are the expectations? What are the results? Committee/ person objectives? assessed? responsible? How are results shared? 1. Students will demonstrate Through an online exit survey to Expectations are to be Initial Results will start to Criminology Committee, an ability to analyze and be completed by graduating determined during AY08-09, become available in August with faculty critically evaluate the purpose seniors with a Criminology while the survey instrument is 2008, following pilot to start representatives from and role of law enforcement Minor. being piloted and in July 2008. Thereafter, a Business; Economics; in a diverse society. sharpened/revised if necessary. more substantial pilot will Philosophy; Psychology; take place in Fall 2008, and Political Science; and perhaps in Spring 2008. Sociology/Anthropology. Reportable results should Both assessment start to become available in strategies/techniques and AY09-10. results to be communicated to each of the six departments represented on the Criminology Minor Committee. 2. Students will demonstrate See Above. See Above. See Above. See above. knowledge of Bill of Rights issues in criminal justice and law enforcement. 3. Students will demonstrate See Above. See Above. See Above. See above. knowledge of the basic structure and functions of the criminal justice system. 4. Students will demonstrate Methods and strategies for To be determined. To be determined. See above. the ability to apply assessing this goal, which will be criminology knowledge in oriented toward students in practical settings. practical settings such as internships and practica and perhaps recently hired alumni, will be discussed and developed starting with AY08-09.

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PART TWO Describe what your program’s assessment accomplishments since your last report was submitted. Discuss ways in which you have responded to the CASA Director’s comments on last year’s report or simply describe what assessment work was initiated, continued, or completed.

Since the submission of the AY2006-07 report, the committee has developed an overall assessment strategy, following the identification of four major goals in Spring 2007. The strategy focuses on an online exit interview to be administered to Criminology Minors during their last semester at EIU. In its present version, the exit survey consists of four major sections: (1) personal information such as major, gender and number of courses transferred to EIU, (2) student goals and future plans relative to criminology/law enforcement, (3) student assessment of their knowledge and skills related to criminology, (4) questions oriented toward interpersonal aspects of their education and their overall satisfaction with the criminology program and (5) thirty content questions aimed at assessing the substantive knowledge base of EIU criminology minors. The thirty content questions were developed based on suggestions from the instructors of the three core required courses for the Minor, with the questions covering the introductory Criminology course (Sociology), the Philosophy of Law course (Philosophy) and the Civil Liberties course (Political Science).

PART THREE

Summarize changes and improvements in curriculum, instruction, and learning that have resulted from the implementation of your assessment program. How have you used the data? What have you learned? In light of what you have learned through your assessment efforts this year and in past years, what are your plans for the future?

The plan is for the present draft of the exit survey to be placed online with the assistance of Danny Harvey of CATS. The initial pilot will be done by targeting any August 2008 graduating seniors with a Criminology Minor. Thereafter, more substantial pilots of the exit survey will be done in Fall 2008 and Spring 2009. After any needed changes or adjustments following the pilot process, reportable results with confidence in their validity and reliability should become available starting with AY2009-10. In addition, AY2008-09 will include preliminary discussion of assessment methods and strategies for Learning Goal #4 (the applied/practical settings learning goal), including whether we wish to maintain this learning goal in the assessment plan.