id: 06145565
dt: j
an: 2013b.00091
au: Dunlap, Laurie A.
ti: A means for updating and validating mathematics programs.
so: MathAMATYC Educ. 3, No. 2, 45-51 (2012).
py: 2012
pu: American Mathematical Association of Two-Year Colleges (AMATYC)
la: EN
cc: B40 D20
ut: program evaluation; program design; research design; science course
    improvement projects; science departments; program validation;
    performance factors; change strategies; educational change; program
    improvement; evaluation methods; methods research; scientific
    methodology; surveys; curricula
ci: 
li: http://www.amatyc.org/publications/mathamatyceducator/February2012/index.html#dunlap
ab: Summary: This article describes how to design program assessment for
    mathematics departments, in two-year and four-year colleges across the
    Midwest, based on a set of components that was generated from a Delphi
    survey. An example is provided to illustrate how this was done at a
    small four-year college. There is an alignment between these components
    and a set of questions that was independently generated by the
    Mathematical Association of America’s committee on the undergraduate
    program in mathematics. This alignment serves as a form of validation
    for the worth of the components and the questions. The survey process
    that generated the components is described. Also discussed is the
    growing importance of program reform and how this process can be
    extrapolated to design program assessment for departments in other
    disciplines.
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