Program/Discipline/Course Assessment Report
Program: Veterinary Technology
Course Number: VETT 235
School/Unit: SOSC
Submitted by: Michele Noreen, DVM
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.
Assessment Measures
Assessment Results
Use of Results
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.
Outcome #1:
Understanding of key
concepts related to
anesthesia and knowledge
of drug classifications
including mode of action
and potential side effects.
Passing of written exams in the
course and use of drugs in lab.
When students are
anesthetizing animals in lab,
they are doing so under direct
supervision of an instructor.
Assessment of their
performance occurs via direct
observation by the instructor as
to appropriate technique.
Student exam performance is
evaluated – students must achieve a
grade of 75% to pass the course.
There is a checklist of tasks the
student must master for the
program. Tasks associated with
VETT 235 are a key part of the
checklist (established by the
AVMA-CVTEA).
Students successfully pass
lecture exams which indicate
understanding of concepts.
Students also demonstrate
hands-on skills to show
capability in this important
area of veterinary medicine.
The skills list has an area to
mark attempts at a skill and
a final mastery of the skill.
Outcome #2:
Demonstration of surgical
nursing skills via handson experience in a lab
setting and a mock client
interaction (exam).
There are check off lists for lab
to monitor student successful
performance of tasks. There is
an exam that is a mock
interaction between the
technician and the client. The
student (technician) provides
instructions for the client
(instructor) on the postoperative care of the patient.
There is a rubric that the
instructor follows to assess
student performance.
Check off lists allow for monitoring
of performance of skills. The tasks
for class are derived from the key
skills list from the AVMA-CVTEA.
A review of the check off lists
results in ensuring students are
performing all tasks. The grading
rubric for the mock
technician/client interaction allows
for an appropriate grade to be given
to the student and also allows for
the instructor to review any key
concepts that have been missed.
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.
Results of individual
questions on exams are
monitored for the number of
correct answers in relation to
the number of students
taking the exam. Questions
are modified or changed as
necessary. Opportunities for
hands-on experiences are
continually reviewed for
improvement.
Additional experiences can
This is a course that covers a
be arranged if there are
large amount of material.
students who are
Optimal use of lab time can
unsuccessful in performing
continually be modified to
certain skills (within reason). ensure opportunities for
hands-on skill mastery and
If students are unsuccessful
in key communications with understanding of key
concepts.
a client, concepts can be
reinforced in both lecture
and lab.
Program/Discipline/Course Assessment Report
Program: Veterinary Technology
Course Number: VETT 235
School/Unit: SOSC
Submitted by: Michele Noreen, DVM
Academic Year: 2010-2011
Outcome #3:
Knowledge of veterinary
dentistry concepts and
exposure to hands-on
skills in the areas of dental
prophylaxis and
radiology.
There is a dental lecture exam
which includes a charting
exercise. There are also four
laboratory experiences with
skills lists to check off.
Students must pass all exams in this
course and show appropriate
acquisition of hands-on skills.
Students are also monitored
through their externships so
that they can expand upon
the learning’s of this key
skill. Students who are
weak in the area of dentistry
can be guided towards
certain externships where
they can gain additional
hands-on opportunities.
For Program, Discipline or Course Assessment Reports:
I have reviewed this report:
Michele Noreen
Coordinator
Ted Plaggemeyer
Dean
Date: June 7, 2011
Date: June 7, 2011
John Tuthill
Vice President of Academic Affairs and Student Services
Date August 23, 2011
Revised 9/28/2009
The effect on the course and
for the program overall is to
ensure the delivery of
introductory material for this
key veterinary technician
skill.