The College of Business Administration at Sam Houston State develops a creative, comprehensive critical thinking measure.

Like many business schools, the College of Business Administration at Sam Houston State University adopted “critical thinking” as a learning goal for its undergraduate and graduate degree programs.  The energy, research and thoroughness that they applied in developing an original measure for this goal, however, is anything but “business as usual.”   [read more]

Two Business Schools who have courageously and generously put their assessment information on the web: The Kania School of Management at the University of Scranton, and the College of Business and Economics at California State University, Northridge.

Leah Marcal, College Assessment  Director at CSU Northridge, talks about why the College of Business and Economics made their assessment information accessible on the web: [read more]

The CSU Northridge website can be viewed from here.  
 Leah can be reached at leah.marcal@adelphia.net.

Paul Perhach, Assistant Dean, has this to say about the assessment website that he developed for the Kania School of Management. [read more]

The Scranton/Kania SOM site generously shares the methods (including rubrics) they use for assessment. Check it out
Paul can be contacted at perhachp1@scranton.edu.

Gay Wakefield, from the Neeley School of Business at Texas Christian University, describes how her school uses an "intake" (selection) approach to BBA Core Assessment 

The Neeley School is one of the few examples I have found of a business school  using the "selection" approach to assessment. Gay attended an AACSB assessment seminar in Dallas in January 2004. As I described the different approaches to assessment, she became very excited. "It was an epiphany!" she said afterwards. "The Neeley School already was gathering great data as part of the admission process, and it would serve us well in assessment of student learning. To learn more about the Neeley "intake" (selection) approach to BBA Core assessment, click here:  BBA core assessment.

Learn more about Gay Wakefield 
To contact Gay, email her at cpc@tcu.edu.

Learn more about the Center for Professional Communication,  which includes a description of their training, assessments, and certification  

Do you have an experience that you would like to share?  
If so, please contact Kathryn Martell at martellk@mail.montclair.edu.