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["Student Learning Outcome 1"]
["Students show a proficiency of scientific writing and presentation skills "]
["Outcome 1: Assessment Measure 1"]
["Class:","NRE 502 Scientific Writing"]
["Course Mode:","Face-to-Face"]
["Assignment:","Rubric: Assessment evaluates  an understanding of the importance and need for publishing, ethical issues, and preliminary considerations associated manuscript preparation. Assessment includes four questions of equal value."]
["Evaluation Tool:","At least 85% of all submitted assignments will have 3 out of the 4 questions correctly answered."]
["Performance Target: ","85% of students receive a grade of B or higher on introductory writing assignment. "]
["Results:","100% of students obtained B or higher in the assignment."]
["Use of Results:","TARGET MET. No use."]
["Outcome 1: Assessment Measure 2"]
["Class:","NRE 591 Graduate Seminar"]
["Course Mode:","Face-to-Face"]
["Assignment:","Acquire the necessary skills to effectively present independent research as measured through grade in class presentation."]
["Evaluation Tool:","Grading Rubric. "]
["Performance Target: ","90% of students receive a grade of Pass."]
["Results:","100% of students obtained a pass on this assignment."]
["Use of Results:","TARGET MET. No use. "]
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["Student Learning Outcome 2"]
["Ability to design experiments and develop quantitative analytical skills."]
["Outcome 2: Assessment Measure 1"]
["Class:","NRE 529 Biostatistics "]
["Course Mode:","Face-to-Face"]
["Assignment:","1. Different biological data and approaches to describe them using graphs and summary statistics; 2. The relationship between statistics and parameters and needs for inference; 3. Probability theory and its impact on research design and statistical inference."]
["Evaluation Tool:","Each question is evaluated using a holistic rubric <6 The student did not understand the problem. They may have written some appropriate formulas or diagrams, but nothing further, or they may have done something entirely wrong; 7 The student has a poor understanding of the problem. The student may have gone in a not-entirely-wrong but unproductive direction, or attempted to solve the problem using pattern matching or by rote; 8 The student has partially understood the problem, not completely lost, but requires tutoring in some of the basic concepts, may have started out correctly, but gone on a tangent or not finished the problem; 9 The student understands the main concepts and problem-solving techniques, but has some minor yet non-trivial gaps in their reasoning; 10 The student clearly understands how to solve the problems, minor mistakes and careless errors can appear insofar as they do not indicate a conceptual misunderstanding. "]
["Performance Target: ","80% of assignments will score 8 or above on the defined questions."]
["Results:","50% of the assignments scored B or above"]
["Use of Results:","TARGET NOT MET. For academic year 2018, the enrollment of students in this class was low (6), many of them were not well prepared for this course, and have relatively poor quantitative preparation.  We will try to include more mentoring and homework practices in the future. On the other side, we need to be more selective during our recruitment process. "]
["Outcome 2: Assessment Measure 2"]
["Class:","NRE 530 Principles of Experimentation "]
["Course Mode:","Face-to-Face"]
["Assignment:","1. Basic principles of hypothesis testing and their relationship with scientific method;\n2. The appropriate statistical tests for different research questions, data, and research design;\n3.  Statistical test assumptions, statistical errors and their impact for making inferences. "]
["Evaluation Tool:","Each question is evaluated using a holistic rubric <6 The student did not understand the problem. They may have written some appropriate formulas or diagrams, but nothing further, or they may have done something entirely wrong; 7 The student has a poor understanding of the problem. The student may have gone in a not-entirely-wrong but unproductive direction, or attempted to solve the problem using pattern matching or by rote; 8 The student has partially understood the problem, not completely lost, but requires tutoring in some of the basic concepts, may have started out correctly, but gone on a tangent or not finished the problem; 9 The student understands the main concepts and problem-solving techniques, but has some minor yet non-trivial gaps in their reasoning; 10 The student clearly understands how to solve the problems, minor mistakes and careless errors can appear insofar as they do not indicate a conceptual misunderstanding. "]
["Performance Target: ","80% of assignments will score 8 or above on the defined questions."]
["Results:","50% of the assignments scored B or above."]
["Use of Results:","TARGET NOT MET. For academic year 2018, the enrollment of students in this class was low (6), many of them were not well prepared for this course, and have relatively poor quantitative preparation.  We will try to include more mentoring and home work practices in the future."]
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["Student Learning Outcome 3"]
["Knowledge of environmental (plant, soil or water) analytical methods and application to real world."]
["Outcome 3: Assessment Measure 1"]
["Class:","NRE 570 Soil, Plant, and Water Analysis "]
["Course Mode:","Face-to-Face"]
["Assignment:","Final Exam (4 out of 5 questions)"]
["Evaluation Tool:","Exam scoring key. Exam Grading Rubric. Each question is worth 5 points"]
["Performance Target: ","85% of the submitted exams will answer 4 out of 5 questions correctly."]
["Results:","No graduate student took this course during this assessment period"]
["Use of Results:","TARGET NOT MET. There has been discussion about making this a required course for PSS Masters students. "]
["Outcome 3: Assessment Measure 2"]
["Class:","Outside of class"]
["Course Mode:","Face-to-Face"]
["Assignment:","Thesis Defense"]
["Evaluation Tool:","Collated in department records."]
["Performance Target: ","70% of students will graduate with a thesis. "]
["Results:","75% of students graduated with thesis."]
["Use of Results:","TARGET MET. More structured review of student progress has been implemented. "]
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["Program Outcome 1"]
["To increase the research capacity of the program"]
["Assessment Measure:","Successfully hiring strong research faculty in research areas germane to the program."]
["Assessment Target:","We will hire on average at least one new faculty member per year from 2015-2020"]
["Assessment Results:","No faculty were employed during 2017/2018"]
["Use of Results:","Department as open position and is actively working towards hiring"]
["Program Outcome 2"]
["Increase the number of graduating students "]
["Assessment Measure:","Number of students graduating"]
["Assessment Target:","Increase the number of students graduating with in three years by 10%"]
["Assessment Results:","Six fewer students graduated in 17/18 than 16/17, but with similar time frames"]
["Use of Results:","Stronger recruitment activities have been undertaken and all faculty encouraged to include graduate student assistantships and research in grant proposals"]

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["Online",null,"No"]
["Off campus"]