Program/Discipline/Course Assessment Report
Program: Computer Information Technology
Course Number: CIT 257
School/Unit: SOSC
Submitted by: Cindy Mortensen
Academic Year: 2010-2011
Complete and submit your assessment report electronically to your Academic Dean. As needed, please attach supporting documents and/or a narrative description of the assessment activities in your
program or discipline.
Program, Discipline or
Course Outcomes
In the boxes below,
summarize the outcomes
assessed in your program or
discipline during the last
year.
Outcome #1:
Students will demonstrate
an understanding of URL
variables and how to use
them.
Outcome #2:
The student will
demonstrate an
understanding of the basic
database manipulation
functions via a request
passed from webpage.
Assessment Measures
Assessment Results
Use of Results
Effect on Program, Discipline or
Course
Based on the results of this
assessment, will you revise your
outcomes? If so, please summarize
how and why in the boxes below.
In the boxes below, summarize
the methods used to assess
program, discipline, or 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.
The student will demonstrate
an understanding of URL
variables and how to use
them by completing
programming projects that
will be evaluated using a
predefined rubric.
Students averaged a 91.6% on
a project demonstrating the
use of the URL query string
variables in a request to
Google Maps.
URL variables are used in App
Inventor as part of the query
string sent to an Activity Starter
element that will open Google
Maps at a defined location, with
certain properties in place.
This course was taught this year
for the first time with Google’s
App Inventor for the Google
Android mobile operating
system, so I will not revise this
outcome at this time.
The student will demonstrate
an understanding of the basic
database manipulation
functions via a request passed
from webpage by completing
programming projects that
will be evaluated using a
predefined rubric.
Students successfully created
several applications that
implemented storing and
retrieving information to
either an internal database or
an external database. Normal
database manipulations
functions are not available to
the students in the App
Inventor user interface.
Students successfully stored and
retrieved database information in
several different types of mobile
applications.
This outcome was developed for
a generic “Web Languages”
class, and does not quite meet
the constraints of the application
user interface. This outcome
should be revised to reflect other
capabilities, such as locationaware and communication
applications.
Program/Discipline/Course Assessment Report
Program: Computer Information Technology
Course Number: CIT 257
School/Unit: SOSC
Submitted by: Cindy Mortensen
Academic Year: 2010-2011
Outcome #3:
The student will
demonstrate an ability to
create dynamic web pages
from data contained in a
database.
The student will demonstrate
an ability to create dynamic
web pages from data
contained in a database by
completing a final project
that incorporates the
objectives of the class, and
that is evaluated using a
predefined rubric.
Students averaged a 93.5% on
a final project application that
implemented storing and
retrieving information to
either an internal database or
an external database.
Students successfully stored and
retrieved database information in
several different types of mobile
applications.
For Program, Discipline or Course Assessment Reports:
I have reviewed this report:
Cindy Mortensen
Department Chair
Ted Plaggemeyer
Dean
Date: May 27, 2011
Date: June 8, 2011
John Tuthill
Vice President of Academic Affairs and Student Services
Date August 23, 2011
Revised 9/28/2009
No revision at this time.