ANNUAL PROGRAM ASSESSMENT & EFFECTIVENESS REPORT – FY14 – Agribusiness
PROGRAM FACULTY: Don Hermanson, Pete Neigebauer, Denise Reeser, Megan Roberts, Bruce White & Jim Zwaschka
COLLEGE MISSION: South Central College provides accessible higher education to promote student growth and regional economic development.
INSTITUTIONAL GOALS (SUPPORTED): INSTITUTIONAL CORE COMPETENCIES SUPPORTED: 1. Appreciative Inquiry Culture 1. Civic knowledge and engagement
2. Quality Education 2. Intercultural knowledge and competence
3. Partnerships & Collaboration 3. Ethical reasoning and action
4. Marketing & Branding 4. Foundations and skills for lifelong learning
5. Holistic Learner Services 5. Teamwork and problem-solving
6. Analysis and inquiry
7. Critical and creative thinking
8. Written and oral communication
DEPARTMENT MISSION: South Central College Agribusiness department will provide postsecondary education to prepare students for their chosen agricultural careers and lifelong learning. Learning Outcomes Means of Assessment Criteria for Success Assessment Results Use of Results Program Student Learning Outcomes (All Majors) 1. Students will demonstrate Internship Evaluation rubric 100% of students will score a What are the findings (data here) How will interpretations of the effective participation on an scored by faculty and internship minimum of 3.5 on a 5 point data (from your bi-annual agribusiness team supervisor scale. discussions) be used to change pedagogy, course mapping, curriculum, etc. Agribusiness Office Specialist/Manager 2. Students will demonstrate verbal and written business communications 3. Students will demonstrate input technology
p. 1 of 7 Learning Outcomes Means of Assessment Criteria for Success Assessment Results Use of Results 4. Students will demonstrate Faculty developed and industry 100% of students will score a 7 promotion and selling of scored rubric for Ready-Set-Sell on a 10 point scale. agricultural services and event products 5. Students will utilize information organization and retrieval systems 6. Students will develop and maintain records required for successful employment 7. Students will apply knowledge of computer applications/operating system software Agribusiness Production 2. Students will prepare and assess a livestock management plan 3. Students will develop and assess a soil and crop management plan 4. Students will Perform farm business operations
5. Students will utilize a Capstone Farm Business Plan 100% of students will score a comprehensive farm business Rubric scored by a panel of Farm minimum of 3.5 on a 5 point plan Management Instructors and rubric Lending Experts 6. Students will demonstrate approved management practices used to select, cultivate and harvest agricultural crops
Agribusiness Service and Management 2. Students will maintain and safely operate industry equipment 3. Students will demonstrate financial management skills
4. Students will demonstrate Faculty developed and industry 100% of students will score a 7 promotion and selling of scored rubric for Ready-Set-Sell on a 10 point scale. agricultural services and event products
Page 2 of 7 Learning Outcomes Means of Assessment Criteria for Success Assessment Results Use of Results 5. Students will develop and maintain records required for successful employment
Agribusiness Service Technician 2. Students will perform Performance testing assembly, repair, operation, and adjustment of machinery and North American Equipment power units Dealers Association Service Technician Skills and Knowledge test 3. Students will conduct trouble Performance testing shooting of agricultural power units and machinery North American Equipment Dealers Association Service Technician Skills and Knowledge test 4. Students will diagnose and Capstone repair tractor systems and equipment
5. Students will perform parts Performance testing department operations North American Equipment Dealers Association Service Technician Skills and Knowledge test 6. Students will perform metal Performance testing welding and fabrication North American Equipment Dealers Association Service Technician Skills and Knowledge test 7. Students will perform work Performance testing using appropriate safety practices North American Equipment Dealers Association Service Technician Skills and Knowledge test Agribusiness Chemical Applicator Technician 2. Students will perform maintenance and operate agribusiness industry equipment 3. Students will perform agribusiness industry computer functions
Page 3 of 7 Learning Outcomes Means of Assessment Criteria for Success Assessment Results Use of Results 4. Students will promote and sell Faculty developed and industry 100% of students will score a 7 agricultural services and scored rubric for Ready-Set-Sell on a 10 point scale. products event
5. Students will develop and maintain agribusiness records systems
6. Students will demonstrate application of agricultural inputs
SCC Institutional Outcome (All Majors) (SCC Outcome) Teamwork and Problem-solving: demonstrate the ability to work together cohesively with diverse groups of persons; including working as a group to resolve any issues that arise. Program Operational Goals (All Majors) Persistence: Maintain student Review annual program student Persistence at or above 66.2%. Goal met. Persistence rate for persistence at or above the persistence Fall 2012 full-time cohort was college desired targets. 77% for Agribusiness Production Service & Management, and 91% for Agribusiness Service Technician, respectively.
Graduate Placement: Maintain Review Graduate Placement 87.9% of graduates will be Goal met. Placement rate for graduate placement at or above rates employed in their field of study FY13 graduates was 95% for college target levels. within twelve months of Agribusiness Production Service graduation. & Management, and 100% for Agribusiness Service Technician, respectively.
Page 4 of 7 Learning Outcomes Means of Assessment Criteria for Success Assessment Results Use of Results
Student Satisfaction Level: Review results of annual college- Student satisfaction with will Goal partially met. 2012 Student Maintain student, employer, and wide surveys average 5.5 or higher on SSI satisfaction for SSI IE and CI in graduate satisfaction at scales ‘Instructional Agribusiness Production Service appropriate levels. Effectiveness’ and ‘Concern for & Management was 5.64 and the Individual’. CCSSE 5.76, respectively. In benchmark scores for Agribusiness Service Technician ‘Active/Collaborative Learning SSI IE and CI values were 5.34 (AL)’, ‘Student Effort (SE)’, and 5.28, respectively. 2011 ‘Academic Challenge (AC)’, and CCSSE data are only available ‘Student-Faculty Interaction for Agribusiness Production (SFI)’ will be greater than 50. Service & Management. Values for AL, SE, AC and SFI were 48.1, 46.8, 36.7, and 60.3, respectively.
Tabled for FY15 report.
Goal met. Employer satisfaction for Agribusiness Production Service & Management was 2.8 (2012)
Tabled for FY15 report
Page 5 of 7 Learning Outcomes Means of Assessment Criteria for Success Assessment Results Use of Results
Review summary of course Student evaluation will rate instructor evaluations (average of average course organization and all course instructor evaluations – management, and average not individual results) – will be instructor performance as 5 or available for FY15. greater. Not available until FY15.
Review employer survey of Employer response to overall graduates and/or internships. satisfaction will average at least a 2.5 on a 1 to 3 Likert scale.
Review alumni survey results. Graduate scores for ‘Overall my Data for this metric will begin to education prepared me for be collected for programs during employment in my field’ will program review in FY15. average at least a 2.5 on a 1 to 3 Likert scale.
Collegiate Core Competencies: Review and identify areas where 100% of SCC core competencies Institutional core competencies Support SCC Core SCC core competencies are are supported through pedagogy are assessed across the college Competencies through pedagogy supported within the program. and/or curriculum within the on a rotation. The current and curriculum. program. Agribusiness curricula supports 100% of SCC core competencies.
SUMMARY CONCLUSIONS:
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