Assessment of Student Learning - Minnesota State University Moorhead

Public, Human Service and Health Administration
Assessment Report
January 20004

Since the last report (2000), the PHSHA Masters program has developed three defined “tracks” or foci of career concentration. This was accomplished by listing some additional courses from Health Administration to the suggested elective courses within the program. Our graduate students and alumni continue to represent the three broad fields from which they have traditionally come – public 9government), non-profit human service, and health delivery. A variety of assessment practices are employed by those of us within the program, including successful job placements, shared testimonies from returning alumni as each year’s “Help Yourself Help Others” banquet, and informal feedback from employers throughout the region.

As part of the Program assessment plan, each student is evaluated by the members of his/her Final Project committee. That committee supervises the preparation and oral defense of the student’s administrative research paper. This report lists the scores for students who have completed the masters program between 1998 and 2003.

Each of the assessment factors are rated on a five (5) point scale ranging from:

1 2 3 4 5

Poor Average Excellent

Listed below are the categories and Final Project members’ general range of scores since this evaluation instrument was instituted.

Develop and present clear and concise research questions....................	4.30-4.40
Develop appropriate methods to answer those questions........................	4.23-4.30
Integrate and evaluate appropriate literature..........................................	4.20-4.25
Analyze data and draw appropriate conclusions.......................................	4.00-4.20
Communicate logically and clearly and reasoning, methodology, and results of the project..................................................................................	4.40-4.50

As the numbers indicate, student performance is generally rated in the very good to excellent range for all assessment factors. The evaluation scores range between 3 and 5 in each category.