This article focuses on how an undergraduate program at an Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB)-accredited business school incorporates assessment on the use of information technology in a computer business course.  To meet the new AACSB standards regarding assessment and adequately determine “if and what students are learning?” this research presents the technology learning goals, the associated learning objectives and the specific technology-related behaviors and actions that are assessed.  In addition, specific examples of student assignments are presented as well as how these assignments are designed and assessed in relation to the learning objectives for the course is discussed.

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Assessing Technology Skills in an Undergraduate Business Course

Kimberly Killmer Hollister*, Nicole B.Koppel**
*,** Associate Professor ,Montclair State University,Department of management &Information Systems,Upper Montclair,New Jersey.
Periodicity:April - June'2007
DOI : https://doi.org/10.26634/jet.4.1.633

Abstract

This article focuses on how an undergraduate program at an Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB)-accredited business school incorporates assessment on the use of information technology in a computer business course.  To meet the new AACSB standards regarding assessment and adequately determine “if and what students are learning?” this research presents the technology learning goals, the associated learning objectives and the specific technology-related behaviors and actions that are assessed.  In addition, specific examples of student assignments are presented as well as how these assignments are designed and assessed in relation to the learning objectives for the course is discussed.

Keywords

Assurance of Learning, Technology Assessment, Pedagogy, Business computers skills

How to Cite this Article?

Kimberly Killmer Hollister and Nicole B. Koppel (2007). Assessing Technology Skills in an Undergraduate Business Course. i-manager’s Journal of Educational Technology, 4(1), 38-42. https://doi.org/10.26634/jet.4.1.633

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