About the College
Student Learning Outcomes
The College of Business Administration at URI first developed an assessment plan for the learning outcomes of its programs in 2003. Since that time we have made progress in developing an assessment process that encompasses all of our programs.
Through this process, goals are established, data is collected and analyzed to measure our performance on these goals and appropriate actions are taken to insure that we are continually improving our programs. Faculty from each program and each area within the College are active participants in this process.
Our General goals for our programs and the rubrics by which we measure these goals include:
Critical Thinking: The ability to actively conceptualize the problem or question, apply knowledge, analyze, synthesize and evaluate information to form an opinion, derive a solution or come to a decision.
Oral Communication: The assessment examines a student's oral communication skills.
Teamwork: This assessment examines whether the student demonstrates the ability to work effectively as part of a group. Both the individual team members' and the team's performance is examined through a survey.
Writing Effectively: The assessment examines a student's writing skills. This assessment only should be done after the student has completed other comparable written assignments in which the student has received specific feedback.
Our Management-Specific goals relate to expectations of learning in areas from the traditional learning disciplines.
