Direct Measures
Graduate students who choose the thesis option within the History Department's Master's Program will write a Master's Thesis of approximately 80-100 pages. The thesis will present original research based on primary source material. It will be evaluated by a team of three history department faculty not including those on the thesis committee for evidence of specific student learning outcomes relating to knowledge and skills.
*The master's exam is only evaluated for students pursuing a non-thesis option.
Graduate students who choose the exam option within the History Department's Master's Program will take a comprehensive written exam at the end of their program of study. That exam will then be evaluated for evidence of specific student learning outcomes relating to the areas of knowledge and skills by a team of three history department faculty not including those on their exam committee.
Objective
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Participants
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Evaluators
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2, 3
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some students
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three history department faculty not including those on their exam committee using Exam Rubric
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Indirect Measures
All graduate students will conduct an exit interview with a team of three history department faculty upon completion of their program of study. The questions asked at this interview will seek to assess student learning outcomes relating to the areas of knowledge, skills, and values and to illuminate departmental successes and failures in achieving its stated goals.
Objective
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Participants
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Evaluators
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6, 7
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all students using Exit Interview
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three history department faculty
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Every year the department will send out a survey to all history graduate alumni. The questions on this survey will seek to determine departmental successes and failures in achieving its stated goals and to assess student learning outcomes in the areas of knowledge, skills, and values.
Previous Plan, Replaced Fall 2007