POCAT Results
Background:
The Program Educational Objectives (PEOs) and Student Outcomes (SOs)
for our BS-CSE program are available
here.
For convenience, we have classified the SOs into two groups.
The first group, the technical group, consists of
outcomes (a), (b), (c), (e), (f), (k), (l), (m), and (n). The second
group, the professional group consists of the remaining outcomes.
The Program Outcomes Achievement Test (POCAT) is the key
direct method that we use for assessing the extent to which students have
achieved the
outcomes in the technical group near the time of their graduation.
The full details of POCAT are available
here.
POCAT is offered each semester. Summary results of POCAT, organized by
semester, appear below.
The tests from various semesters and analysis/evaluation of the results are
available here (password protected).
Starting in July '16, there is
a section of the main improvements page
here
which lists the changes made based on assessment results and their
evaluations.
Actually, more recently, the analysis/evaluation results are more in the Undergrad Studies
Committee meeting minutes.
- 2017-'18:
- 2016-'17:
- Spring '17, Summer '17
- Autumn '16:
- Group 1 (student codes start with "A" or "B")
- Group 2 (student codes start with "C" or "D")
- Group 3 (BS-CIS majors; student codes start with "E" or "F")
- 2015-'16:
- Spring '16 (includes also students who took the POCAT in Su '16):
- Group 1 (student codes start with "A", "B", or "C")
- Group 2 (student codes start with "D", "E", or "F")
- Group 3 (student codes start with "G", "H", "I", or "J")
- Autumn '15:
- Group 1 (student codes start with "A" or "B")
- Group 2 (student codes start with "C" or "D")
- 2014-'15:
- Spring/Summer '15:
- Group 1 (student codes start with "A", "B", or "C")
- Group 2 (student codes start with "D", "E", or "F")
- Group 3 (student codes start with "G", "H", or "I")
- Group 4 (student codes start with "Y" or "Z")
- Autumn '14:
- Group 1 (student codes start with "A")
- Group 2 (student codes start with "B")
- Group 3 (student codes start with "C")
- 2013-'14:
- Spring '14:
- Group 1 (student codes start with "A" or "B")
- Group 2 (student codes start with "C" or "D")
- Group 3 (student codes start with "E" or "F")
- Autumn '13:
- Group 1 (student codes start with "A")
- Group 2 (student codes start with "B")
- Group 3 (student codes start with "C")
- 2012-'13:
- Spring '13:
- Group 1 (student codes start with "A" or "B")
- Group 2 (student codes start with "C")
- Group 3 (student codes start with "E" or "F")
- Autumn '12:
- Group 1 (student codes start with "A")
- Group 2 (student codes start with "B")
- Group 3 (student codes start with "C")
- 2011-'12:
- 2010-'11:
- Spring '11: Since there were many students taking it, the
test was administered on three days, April 19, 20, 21. The results
for the three tests are available below. In addition,
discrimination analysis of the test results is also available:
- Winter '11 (Discrimination analysis)
- Autumn '10
- Summer '10
- 2009-'10:
- 2008-'09:
- 2007-'08:
- 2006-'07: First full year of POCAT: