ASSESSMENT REPORT

FOR

Bachelor of Music with All Level Certification (BM)
Instructional Degree Program

Spring 2004
Assessment Period Covered

June 30, 2004
Date Submitted

Expanded Statement of Institutional Purpose Linkage:

Institutional Mission Reference:
Texas A&M International University, a Member of The Texas A&M University System, is committed to the preparation of students for leadership roles in their chosen profession and in an increasingly complex, culturally diverse state, national, and global society…Through instruction, faculty and student research, and public service, Texas A&M International University is a strategic point of delivery for well-defined programs and services that improve the quality of life for citizens of the border region, the State of Texas, and national and international communities.

College/University Goal(s) Supported:
To fulfill the University mission in offering baccalaureate programs in the arts, as well as the commitment to the preparation of students for leadership roles in professions related to the fine and performing arts. (1) The students’ knowledge and appreciation of culture, fine arts, social integration, and self-realization.

Intended Educational (Student) Outcomes:

1. Students completing the Bachelor of Arts in Art with All-Level Certification will attain a basic and satisfactory competence in the history of art, within the broader context of a liberal-arts education.

2. Students completing the Bachelor of Arts in Art with All-Level Certification will attain basic technical proficiency in at least two media.

3. Students completing the Bachelor of Arts in Arts with All-Level Certification will be prepared to continue producing their work for personal self-realization and growth after graduation, and/or to display and exhibit their work is a professional coherent way to public audiences. They will also have success in their attempts, as teachers, to integrate the teaching of art into their classrooms.

ASSESSMENT REPORT

FOR

Bachelor of Music with All Level Certification (BM)
Instructional Degree Program

Spring 2004
Assessment Period Covered

June 30, 2004
Date Submitted

Intended Educational (Student) Outcome:

NOTE: There should be one form for each intended outcome listed.  The intended outcome should be restated in the box immediately below and the intended outcome number entered in the blank spaces.

1. Students completing the Bachelor of Arts in Art with All-Level Certification will attain a basic and satisfactory competence in the history of art, within the broader context of a liberal-arts education.

First Means of Assessment for Outcome Identified Above:
_1___a. Means of Program Assessment & Criteria for Success:
70% of all students anonymously completing a survey administered by a fellow student during the time block allotted for end-of-term Student Evaluations in ARTS 3353 will agree or strongly agree with the statement, “I now have a much more thorough grasp of the history of art for the periods I have studied than I did prior to becoming a major in art.”

_1___a. Summary of Assessment Data Collected:
No data have been collected up to this point because the degree was only approved in late 2003; no one has graduated yet with this major. ARTS 3353 has yet to be offered.

_1__a. Use of Results to Improve Instructional Program:

At this time, the program faculty can make no recommendations for alterations to the degree program or this means of assessment.

Second Means of Assessment for Outcome Identified Above:

_1___b. Means of Program Assessment & Criteria for Success:

60% of students majoring in Art with All-Level Certification, anonymously completing a survey administered by a fellow student during the time block allotted for end-of-term Student Evaluations in ARTS 3353, will agree or strongly agree with the statement, “I now feel competent at integrating art-historical content into some of my future teaching assignments.”

__1__b. Summary of Assessment Data Collected:

No data have been collected up to this point because the degree was only approved in late 2003; no one has graduated yet with this major. ARTS 3353 also has not yet been offered.

__1__b. Use of Results to Improve Instructional Program:

At this time, the program faculty can make no recommendations for alterations to the degree program or this means of assessment.

ASSESSMENT REPORT

FOR

Bachelor of Music with All Level Certification (BM)
Instructional Degree Program

Spring 2004
Assessment Period Covered

June 30, 2004
Date Submitted

Intended Educational (Student) Outcome:

NOTE: There should be one form for each intended outcome listed.  Intended outcome should be restated in the box immediately below and the intended outcome number entered in the blank spaces.

__2__ Students completing the Bachelor of Arts in Art with All-Level Certification will attain basic technical proficiency in at least two media.

First Means of Assessment for Outcome Identified Above:
__2__a. Means of Program Assessment & Criteria for Success:
50% of majors and self-identifying potential majors in this degree in all 2000-level courses (designed to introduce students to various art media) will pass, with a grade average of at least C, tests and quizzes administered periodically throughout the term. In part, these assignments will draw on competency-based standards particular to the technical mastery of a given medium, as derived from the most recent edition available of the Handbook of the National Association of School of Art and Design (NASAD).

__2__a. Summary of Assessment Data Collected:
No data have been collected up to this point because the degree was only approved in late 2003; no one has graduated yet with this major.

__2__a. Use of Results to Improve Instructional Program:

At this time, the program faculty can make no recommendations for alterations to the degree program or this means of assessment.

Second Means of Assessment for Outcome Identified Above:

__2__b. Means of Program Assessment & Criteria for Success:

50% of majors and self-identifying potential majors in Art with All-Level Certification, anonymously completing a survey administered by a fellow student during the time block allotted for end-of-term Student Evaluations in all ARTS 2000-level courses, will agree or strongly agree with the statement, “I now feel competent at integrating technical and formal information, ideas, and skills into at least some of my future teaching assignments, depending on the grade level of the students.”

__2__b. Summary of Assessment Data Collected:

No data have been collected up to this point because the degree was only approved in late 2003; no one has graduated yet with this major.

____b. Use of Results to Improve Instructional Program:

ASSESSMENT REPORT

FOR

Bachelor of Music with All Level Certification (BM)
Instructional Degree Program

Spring 2004
Assessment Period Covered

June 30, 2004
Date Submitted

Intended Educational (Student) Outcome:

NOTE: There should be one form for each intended outcome listed.  Intended outcome should be restated in the box immediately below and the intended outcome number entered in the blank spaces.

__3__ Students completing the Bachelor of Arts in Art with All-Level Certification will be prepared to continue producing their work for personal self-realization and growth after graduation, and or to display and exhibit their work in a professional coherent way to public audiences. They will also have success, as teachers, in their attempts to integrate the teaching of art into their classrooms.

First Means of Assessment for Outcome Identified Above:
__3__a. Means of Program Assessment & Criteria for Success:
Each student enrolled in ARTS 4333 will prepare a display-ready Artist’s Statement to accompany their end-of-term exhibit as required in this course. A three-person panel (only two of which are full-time TAMIU faculty members in studio art) will grade each student statement with regard to: (i) clarity of organization and expression; (ii) integration of relevant concepts and skills (e.g., technical, critical, personal, and historical) learned and developed as a major in art; (iii) ostensive correspondence, to an engaging degree, of the artistic ideas and intentions expressed in each statement to the individual’s work as exhibited. At least 70% of the graded statements will each earn an average overall grade from the panelists of C or better.

__3__a. Summary of Assessment Data Collected:
No data have been collected up to this point because the degree was only approved in late 2003; no one has graduated yet with this major.

__3__a. Use of Results to Improve Instructional Program:

At this time, the program faculty can make no recommendations for alterations to the degree program or this means of assessment.

Second Means of Assessment for Outcome Identified Above:

__3__b. Means of Program Assessment & Criteria for Success:

At least 50% of responding alumni who hold this degree, surveyed two years after graduation by the Art program, will provide generally positive responses to questions concerning their ongoing creative self-fulfillment and development; at least 50% of these responding alumni will also be actively teaching art, either full-time at the higher grade levels or as a periodically taught subject at lower grades.

__3__b. Summary of Assessment Data Collected:

No data have been collected up to this point because the degree was only approved in late 2003; no one has graduated yet with this major.

__3__b. Use of Results to Improve Instructional Program: