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TMCC
COURSE ASSESSMENT REPORT (CAR)
Revised 09/06/2012
Course Prefix, Number and Title: ANTH 10 I: Introduction to Cultural Anthropology
Division/Unit: School of Liberal Arts
Submitted by: Patrick T. Jackson and Julia E. Hammett
Contributing Faculty: Various
Academic Year: 2012-2013
Assessment Semester: Fall 1:81 Spring 1:81
Complete and electronically submit your assessment report to your Department Chair/Coordinator/Director. As needed, please attach supporting documents and/or
a narrative description of the assessment activities in your course.
Course Outcomes
In the boxes below, summarize
the outcomes assessed in your
course during the year.
Outcome#I
OUTCOME #1: Successful students
will be able to define and apply key
anthropological concepts.
Assessment Measures
Assessment Results
Effect on Course
In the boxes below, summarize
the methods used to assess course
outcomes during the last year.
In the boxes below, summarize
the results of your assessment
activities during the last year.
In the boxes below, summarize
how you are or how you plan to
use the results to improve student
learning.
Based on the results of this
assessment, will you revise your
outcomes? If so, please
summarize how and why in the
boxes below:
MEASURE#!: 75% of students will
Students scoring 70% or better:
be able to distinguish between
cultural relativism and
ethnocentrism in an exam short
answer or essay.
2009-2010: 87.17%
2010-2011: 83.83%
2011-2012: 86.53%
2012-2013: 87.69"
Provided that outcomes for this
measure remain as positive as
current trends show, emphasis
should be placed on further
integration of curricular approaches
to cultural relativism and
ethnocentrism through the
implementation of standardized
assessment techniques (common
rubrics, worksheets, etc.).
Outcome does not require revision
at this time. Faculty will continue to
work toward standardizing
implementation and continue to
devote adequate course time to this
this important measure.
Race continues to be an area of
concern in the curriculum of ANTH
101. The further decrease in
outcome measure 2 during fall 2012
comes in spite of efforts to
standardize this measure by
implementing a standardized race
worksheet activity.
Further standardization of this
measure is needed in order to
improve comparative analysis
individually and collectively.
Program will work toward a more
standardized assignment based on
this measure is implemented in all
course sections beginning 20132014 year.
A continued slight increase (+1.16%)
ls evident over the last three years,
consistently higher than the 75%
benchmark.
Outcome# 2
OUTCOME #2: Successful students
will be able to deconstruct "race."
Use of Results
MEASURE #2: 75% of students will
identify "race" as a social construct
rather than a biological fact, in an
exam short answer or an essay.
Assessment data from essay and
short answer responses was
collected for six ANTH101 sections in
fall 2012.
Students scoring 70% or better:
2009-2010: 79.28%
2010-2011: 80.98
2011-2012: 75.51%
2012-2013: 77.65"
A slight increase (+2.14%) from the
previous year, consistently higher
than the 75" benchmark.
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TMCC
COURSE ASSESSMENT REPORT (CAR)
Course PrefIX, Number and Title: ANTH 101 : Introduction to Cultural Anthropology
Division/Unit: School of Liberal Arts
Submitted by: Patrick T. Jackson and Julia E. Hammett
Contributing Faculty: Various
Academic Year: 2012-2013
Course Outcomes
Outcome#3
OUCOME #3: Successful students
will compare cultures in terms of
their social institutions.
Assessment Measures
MEASURE #3: 75% of students will
compare social institutions (i.e.
political, religious, and economic)
between two or more cultures in an
essay. Assessment data from essay
and short answer responses was
collected for six sections in fall 2012
and eight in spring 2013.
Assessment Results
Students scoring 70% or better:
2009-2010: 85.18%
2010-2011: 72.44%
2011-2012: 77.73
2012-2013: 79.54%
A slight increase (+1.81%) from the
previous year. Three of the last four
years the average has exceeded the
benchmark of 75%
Use of Results
Improvement is a good sign. This
measure is intended to capture
larger concepts of cultural
anthropology. Over the years of
measuring this assessment there
remains a significant challenge to
uniform evaluation.
Although the outcome is above the
benchmark, apparently some faculty
questioned their students'
preparation for succeeding at this
measure sufficiently. Others are
critical of the inherently vague and
broad nature of the measure.
Effect on Course
Review of Outcome 3 is warranted.
As noted in the 2012-2013 Program
Unit Review, "this measure is
attempting to analyze a students'
ability to complete cross-cultural
comparison on one of a wide array
of different thematic areas covered
within the class.
At this time, best practices for
evaluating essays include rubrics.
Once a rubric is established, a group
of faculty should evaluate the
essays. This is an extremely labor
Intensive process. Dr. Hammett
developed a preliminary rubric this
year and it will be piloted as a
standardized evaluation tool over
the next two years. However, finding
the time to set aside to evaluate a
comparative pool of essays from 101
classes remains a stumbling block.
Perhaps the scope of this measure is
too wide for practical analysis.
Faculty members continue to review
and discuss this measure as we
move forward."
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Course Prefix, Number and Title: ANTH 101: Introduction to Cultural Anthropology
Division/Unit: School of Liberal Arts
Submitted by: Patrick T. Jackson and Julia E. Hammett
Contributing Faculty: Various
Academic Year: 2012-2013
Course Section Assessment Data Summary
Note: Percentages for Measure 1, 2, and 3 represent the number of students achieving the given percent score during assessment. A new means of course
evaluation recently instituted is% Completers (per NSHE formula} and% Retained (per IT formula}.
Section
1011001 Fa12
1011002 Fal2
1011003 Fa12
101 2001 Fa12
101 3001 Fal2
101 3002 Fa12
Measure I - 60%
Measure I - 70%
Measure 2 - 60%
Measure 2 - 70%
Measure 3 - 60%
Measure 3 - 70%
% Completion
% Retained
89.1
100
100
76.2
100
100
81.3
96.8
100
69
100
95.2
82.5
90
96.8
56
95.2
100
76.4
83.3
58.1
48
85.7
82.4
100
93.5
97
84
100
94.4
100
87.1
81.8
68
100
72.2
.82
.79
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
1011001 Spl3
1011002 Sp13
101 1003 Spl3
1011004 Spl3
1011005 Spl3
101 2001 Sp13
101 3001 Sp13
101 3002 Sp13
Average Totals
87.1
88.6
62.5
90.9
91.7
94.l
78.3
95
89.54
87.1
88.6
62.5
90.9
91.7
91.2
78.3
95
87.69
88.9
80
84.4
96.8
85.3
79.4
78.3
100
86.69
88.9
74.3
53.1
96.8
85.3
76.5
78.3
100
77.65
93.5
80
96.9
80.6
88.2
82.4
87
100
91.25
90.3
77.1
59.4
74.2
67.6
67.6
78.3
90
79.54
.86
.86
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
.84
.83
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COURSE ASSESSMENT REPORT (CAR)
Course Prefix, Number and Title: ANTH l 01: Introduction to Cultural Anthropology
Division/Unit: School of Liberal Arts
Submitted by: Patrick T. Jackson and Julia E. Hammett
Contributing Faculty: Various
Academic Year: 2012-2013
Please enter your name and date below to confinn you have reviewed this report:
Title
Name
Date
Department Chair/Coordinator/Director
Patrick T. Jackson, Program Coordinator and Julia E. Hammett,
Teaching Lab Director
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Vice President of Academic Affairs and Student Services
JRB: CAC updated 10/6/2014
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