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Accounting | MFAT, FACIT, all majors |
Administrative Services | MFAT, BSBA; NTE, MoGEA, BSED |
Biology | MFAT, BS, BSED; NTE, BSED |
Chemistry | MFAT, BS, BSED; NTE, BSED |
Communication Disorders | NTE, only students seeking state certification |
Economics | MFAT, recommended |
Elementary & Special Education | NTE, MoGEA |
English | NTE, BSED; MFAT |
Foreign Languages | NTE, BSED |
Geosciecnces | NTE, BSED |
History | NTE, Social Studies; MFAT, History |
Human Environmental Studies | National Home Economics Test, recommended |
Management | MFAT, all majors |
Marketing | MFAT, all majors |
Mathematics | MFAT, BS; NTE, BSED |
Music | MFAT, all graduating seniors; NTE, BMED |
Philosophy and Religion | GRE or LSAT, all graduating seniors |
Physical Education | NTE, MoGEA |
Physics | MFAT, BS |
Political Science | MFAT, recommended |
Sociology & Anthronpology | MFAT |
Secondary Education | NTE, MoGEA |
Social Work | Area Concentration Achievement Test (2nd Semester of Senior Year) |
Speech Communication | NTE, BSED |
20 Departments require a nationally normed test of some or all of their graduating seniors. 3 departments recommend a nationally normed test to some or all of their graduating seniors (35 total departments). All graduates seeking a BSED, BMED, or BVHED must take the NTE. All graduates seeking a BSBA must take the MFAT.
Certification/Licensure Exams
Accounting | CPA exam, accouting; Real Estate Brokerage, Finance |
Chemistry | National Registry Exam, Medical Technology |
Communication Disorders | National Examination of Speech Pathology, gradaute students only |
Health & Leisure | NCTRC, therapeutic recreaction; NAAT, athletic trainers, American College of Sports Medicince Exercise Test Technologist, Cooper Institute Certification, health promotion; IDEA, dance exercise, Certified Leisure Professional |
Human Environmental Studies | NCIDQ, interior design majors |
Nursing | NCLEX, BSN, & AA |
Local Objective Tests
Agriculture | All graduating seniors |
Health & Leisure | Pre and Post Exam for all majors |
Psychology | Administered for first time in Fall 93, discontinued MFAT as of Spring 94 |
Criminal Justice | Strongly encouraged |
Performance Based Assessments
Active or Partially Implemented:
Art | Juried Portfolio and Show |
Foreign Language | Exit Portfolio |
History | Juried senior seminar research project, History; historic preservation, portfolio planned |
Industrial Technology | Capstone course senior project |
Mass Communications | External review of capstone experience projects |
Music | Juried evaluation of musical performance, piano proficiency evaluation, senior recitals and exit performance; portfolio planned |
Speech Communication and Theatre | Review of speaking skills, speech; juried review of play direction. |
English | Writing students, portfolio |
Philosophy and Religion | Senior paper |
Psychology | Portfolio |
Secondary Education | Portfolio |
Exit Interviews or Surveys
Criminal Justice | Survey |
Foreign Language | Interview |
Harrison College of Business | Recent graduate survey, every term, all departments |
Mass Communications | Interview |
Psychology | Interview |
Social Work | Survey |
Internship Evaluations
Agriculture | |
Administrative Services | Office Systems Managemnet, business and faculty evaluators |
Health & Leisure | Internship Employee Assessment & Research Project for all majors in internships |
History | All Historic Preservation majors |
Mass Communications | Selected students only |
Political Science | Exit interview with supervisor, 30-40% of all students |
Elementary and Special Education | Block I Exit Interviews |
Secondary Education | Block I, II, III, & IV exit evaluations |
Social Work | Senior level internships |
Job Placement Rates
Active or Partially Implemented:
Agriculture
Communication Disorders
Industrial Technology
Nursing
Social Work
Planned:
Foreign Language
4 departments formally maintain job placement rates. One department plans to do so.
Graduate/Medical/Law School Acceptance Rates
Active or Partially Implemented:
Philosophy | Graduate school and law school |
Biology | Medical school |
Chemistry | Medical technolgy programs |
Economics | Graduate School |
Foreign Language
4 departments formally maintain graduate/medical/law school acceptance rates. One department plans to do so.
Alumni Follow-Up
Accounting | Survey, 1992-93 |
Chemistry | Newsletter |
College of Education | Beginning Teacher Newsletter |
Elementary & Special Education | Newsletter |
English | Periodic Survey |
Geosciences | Newsletter |
Harrison College of Business | All alumni, every five years, all departments\Newsletter |
Health & Leisure | Newsletter |
History | Occasionally with newsletter |
Mass Comunications | Every 4 to 5 semesters, 40% return rate |
Music | Satisfaction questionnaire, planned |
Nursing | Survey, 93-94; phone contact |
Physical Education | Newsletter |
Psychology | Fall 1993 |
Social Work | Roughly every two years |
Other
Agriculture | Employer/Faculty/Alumni Advisory Committee |
Educational Administration & Counseling | Post-masters and EDS students take the Missouri Admnistrators Assessment |
Human Environmental Studies | Instructor and nursery school teacher evaluations, child development |
Industrial Technolgy | Departmental Advisory Committee includes employers of graduates |
Political Science | Pre and post tests in comparative political systems and US political systems |
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