Assessment Plan
Direct Evidence:
- Embedded competency assignments in COMD 6230 – Intro to Research in Communicative Disorders
- Understand key concepts related to basic and applied research
- Know the ethical issues underlying research with human subjects
- Describe the characteristics, strengths and limitations of various types of research designs
- Assess the validity and reliability of behavioral measures
- Review the quality of research studies
- Thesis defense: Successfully pass defense with a mastery rating on a rubric as low, mid, or high
Low | Mid | High |
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Incomplete underlying theoretical principles and hypotheses |
Appropriate underlying theoretical principles and hypotheses |
Well defined underlying theoretical principles and hypotheses |
Methodology yields minimal data appropriate for answering the research questions |
Acceptable methodology that yields data appropriate for answering the research questions |
Well-developed and creative methodology that yields complex data appropriate for answering the research questions |
Contains basic analyses of data |
Contains appropriate analyses of data |
Contains complex analyses of data |
Discussion of the methodological and theoretical implications of the analyses is lacking in detail. |
Acceptable discussion of the methodological and theoretical implications of the analyses |
Complex and creative discussion of the methodological and theoretical implications of the analyses |
Indirect Evidence:
- Student, advisor, and instructor feedback from informal and formal sources
- Upon graduation, continued study or employment in a field related to communication sciences