Campus Assessment of Student Learning Outcomes

What are the student learning outcomes in your unit? 

For CIS Majors, the curriculum is designed to accomplish two major goals for students who graduate and go on to work somewhere in the computer field:

• Students should be prepared for entry-level positions.
• Students should be prepared for positions beyond the entry-level.
• Provide students with a basis for preparation of Certification exams (MOS, Network+)*.

To prepare students for these goals, the following sub goals are identified:

• Students will think critically, analytically, and quantitatively.
• Students will gather, synthesize, process, disseminate, and create systems based on data gathered.
• Students learning will be based on broad hands-on practical experiences, particularly in computer networking systems.

 Which outcome did you assess this academic year?

Assessment and Program Integrity

• All CIS students must complete a Capstone Courses / Final or Sr. Projects (D446 / C390 or Y398 Internship)
• CIS is continuing the data collection regarding outcomes in CSCI-A106 assessment exam by Cengage (Course Technology) called SAM.
  • Data Collection from Spring 2010, Summer 2010, and Fall 2010 (Current)
• Students in the Joint Degree (CIS / FA) complete CSCI-C390 and FINA-S497.
• Informatics has a different sequence for its capstone courses.
  • Only two majors so far, could be problematic to get them through program
• CIS will now meet with its Advisory Board once a year (due to lack of funding provided by COAS and the campus.
• CIS curriculum strives to meet the needs of other units.
  • Science Majors need one programming course
  • SOB needs CSCI-A106 and A285
  • Discussing needs with HIT to add DPIS D290 to schedule again

CIS uses oral/written tests, labs, independent projects, service learning/internships, alumni surveys, etc., as measures for student learning outcomes. The Chart below shows our timetable and responsible parties for assessment. The assessment outcomes are consistent with the campus’ General Education and overall Student Learning Outcomes.

We have additional information from Cengage on successful assessments with SAM, which we are studying and, if applicable, will implement in our assessment.

How did you assess their skills before, during and / or at the end of the semester / academic year?

Please summarize the data you have collected this semester / academic year.

Teacher-course evaluations (demonstrating teaching excellence on the part of both tenure track and lecturer positions for both semesters) are the main source for our faculty assessment; research publications are only required for full-time tenure track faculty.

Dr. Abiona had another peer-reviewed paper accepted by the International Journal of Communications, Network and System Sciences (IJCNS) September 2009 as first author: A Scalable Architecture for Network Traffic and Monitoring and Analysis using Free Open Source Software.

He was second author on a (peer-reviewed) paper presented at 32^nd International Convention MIPRO 2009, Telecommunications and Information Conference in Croatia May 2009. In addition, he presented a first author paper at the IEEE International Conference on Electro/Information Technology in in Windsor, Ontario, Canada in June 2009. IEEE is the foremost society for Electrical Engineering and Computer Science research.

He rounds out 2009 with a multi-author (5^th author) paper for the International Joint Conference on Computer, Information, and System Sciences and Engineering held in December 2009.

Dr. Dorin has completed a revision of a textbook (6^th Ed) for Shelly/Cashman Series, Cengage Publishing.

Dr. Wang has also submitted a paper, Privacy Preservation of Affinities in Social Networks, to IADIS International Conference Information Systems 2010, Porto, Portugal, March 18-20, 2010.

Both Dr. Abiona and Dr. Wang have continued their research efforts with Summer Faculty Fellowships in summer 2010, which will be reported in 2010 annual reports.

In many cases these conferences require that papers must be complete and are peer-reviewed for acceptance to the conference.

Please describe any programmatic changes you have made or are planning to make based on the data you have collected.

New faculty have expertise in content areas that allow for changes in courses. The Informatics courses on other campuses can be utilized by our campus and we will seek to bring these to our campus for our use.