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Assessment
Data On Learning Goals
What
are the perceptions of graduating seniors regarding the extent to which
the department's learning goals have been attained?
The
Department has established eleven learning goals. Seniors were asked to
indicate the extent to which they believe each goal was attained by them.
Below is a description of each goal and the percentage of seniors who believed
that the goal was somewhat or significantly attained. Seniors could also
check "attained to a small degree" or "not attained at all." |
Percentage
of Graduating Seniors Who Believe the Following Learning Goals Were Somewhat
or Significantly Attained
| Learning
Goal |
Somewhat
or Significantly
Attained
|
| Understanding
social reality and society |
98%
|
| Research
and statistical skills for evaluating and gathering evidence about social
life and social relations. |
98%
|
| Knowledge
about basic concepts such as culture, socialization, stratification, institutions,
self, deviance, and so forth. |
98%
|
| Knowledge
about how the self develops sociologically rather than psychologically. |
95%
|
| Understanding
how institutions like the family, education, and the economy, etc. are
interrelated. |
98%
|
| Understanding
the significance of variations by race, social class, gender, and age. |
98%
|
| Ability
to think critically about social events and to present opposing viewpoints
and alternative hypothesis on various social issues. |
96%
|
| Basic
computer skills necessary to find, communicate, create and apply sociological
knowledge and information. |
83%
|
| Understanding
the internal diversity of American society. |
95%
|
| Understanding
cultures different from our own. |
88%
|
| Understanding
the place of American society in the international and global world. |
61%
|
| What
this table shows is that graduating seniors overwhelmingly believe that
all of the department's learning goals were somewhat or significantly attained.
The data also show that a sizeable percentage of students do not believe
that understanding the place of American society in the international global
world was significantly or somewhat attained. |
Percentage
of Graduating Seniors Who Believe (to a great or some extent) Sociology
Helped Improve Their Data Analysis, Critical Thinking, Reading, and Writing
Skills
Graduating
seniors strongly believe that the sociology major helped them to increase
their basic and general education skills. Over three-fourths believe that
their skills in reading, writing, statistics, critical thinking, computer
use, interpersonal and people management skills, and data analysis were
to a great or to some extent helped by being a sociology major. Strongest
support (to a great or to some extent) was given to the basic skills of
writing (91%), reading, (82%) critical thinking (98%) and data analysis
(87%). Thus graduating seniors believe that courses in sociology helped
them to think more critically and to improve their ability to read, write
and perform data analysis. |
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