2023 Student Learning Outcomes Report

We elected to evaluate six different outcomes this year, outcomes one/three and nine/five were evaluated during the fall of 2022 and we evaluated outcomes nine and six/seven during the spring of 2023. We frequently evaluate outcome nine because it is tremendously important to the discipline and we determined that making sure students were aware of and could evaluate policy actions in response to COVID 19 was extremely important. While we try to evaluate all objectives when possible, we will evaluate some objectives more frequently than others. We attempt to ask questions that apply to multiple SLO’s whenever possible. These questions address SLO’s we are not explicitly listing with each question.

All measures were direct during the assessment of economics majors. All seniors in the capstone course, ECON 580, Senior Seminar, during the fall semester of 2022 and the spring semester of 2023 were examined. At the start of the semester, students received a list of the twelve knowledge-based SLOs and the information that their final examinations would include questions closely based on two of the SLOs. ECON 580 typically has an enrollment of ten to thirty students. In the fall 2022 semester, ten students took the final exam and in the spring 2023 semester fifteen students took the final. The overall results from our students demonstrate a strong mastery of the concepts of opportunity costs, thinking at the margin and evaluating public policy.

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