The Interior Design Program will graduate students who meet the expectations of employers in the profession of interior design.
Objective
Demonstration Of Applied Professional Competence
The students will demonstrate professional competence and the ability to apply what they have learned (egs., appropriate product knowledge, knowledge of business procedures, knowledge of industry systems) in various aspects of interior design.
Indicator
Employer Evaluation Data
The supervisor evaluation form for interior design interns evaluates three skill areas (personal skills, interpersonal skills, and professional characteristics including appropriate use of knowledge from the program content). Both questions from this form used as indicators are essentially overall supervisor ratings of the intern. One of them rates the interns on a Likert-type scale of 1 to 5, with 1 being the lowest rating and 5 being the highest rating. The other is a "yes-no" indicator of whether the employer would hire the intern in the company for an entry-level management position. Internship is a requirement for degree completion in this program, so all interior design students are evaluated in this way. The instrument, which includes the supervisor rating of the intern that will be extracted and reported, was developed by the department faculty as a whole. Instruments used by other family and consumer sciences/interior design colleges and departments were reviewed in the development of the instrument. The attached instrument was designed to be generic for all programs in the Department of Family and Consumer Sciences that require this type of internship and is published in the Internship Handbook, which serves as the textbook for the internship courses (FCS 469). The other programs that use this same form are food service management, general family and consumer sciences (without a teaching certificate), and fashion merchandising.
Criterion
Employer Evaluation Data
80% of business supervisors of interior design interns will give the intern a rating of 3.5 or higher on a 5.0 scale and 80% of business supervisors will indicate that they would hire the intern given the availability of a suitable entry-level management position in the company.
Finding
Employer Evaluation Data
100% of business supervisors of interior design interns gave the intern a rating of 3.5 or higher on a 5.0 scale with an average score of 4.56 and 83% of business supervisors indicated that they would hire the intern given the availability of a suitable entry-level management position in the company.
Action
Employer Evaluation
The program will continue to work on preparing the interior design students to meet the expectation of companies who employ them. This will include providing students with a detailed curriculum and practical experience through projects and assignments that reflect real world design problems, as well as inviting interior design professionals as guest speakers and/or planning trips to design businesses.
Goal
Student Knowledge Of Content Area
Students graduating from the interior design program will demonstrate the knowledge and skills necessary for entry-level interior design positions.
Objective
Demonstration Of Content-Area Knowledge And Skills
Students graduating from the interior design program will demonstrate the knowledge and skills necessary for entry-level interior design positions.
Indicator
Exit Survey - Knowledge And Skills
The Exit Survey for interior design majors includes multiple-choice and short-answer sections that test retention of course material and a case study that applies directly to food service management; it is graded on a pass/fail basis. (Each program area has multiple-choice, short answer, and other questions that are specific to that program content.) To develop this instrument, faculty in the content area reviewed course and program objectives and chose questions from exams that reflected important concepts that students should retain. The test is used repetitively and the scoring is holistic and, we believe, consistent. For security reasons, the "test" portion (multiple-choice questions, short essay questions, and case study) is not attached. However, this document is available in the chair's office. For AY 2009-2010, a standardized grading rubric will be developed.
Criterion
Exit Survey - Knowledge And Skills
80% of students who complete the interior design program's Exit Survey will score a grade of Pass or High Pass on the content portions of the exam. Exams are being graded holistically to this point, but for the next assessment period (AY 2009-2010), a standardized grading rubric will be developed.
Finding
Knowledge And Skills
100% of students who completed the interior design program's Exit Survey scored a grade of Pass or High Pass on the content portions of the exam. Exams are being graded holistically to this point, but for the next assessment period (AY 2009-2010), a standardized grading rubric will be developed.
Action
Knowledge And Skills
The program will continue to work on preparing the interior design students to retain a broad base of design knowledge and practical skills. This will include providing students with a detailed design curriculum and practical experience through projects and assignments that reflect real world design problems. Improvement of student performance on the Exit Survey has been affected by an update to the Survey's questions and case study. As additional course changes are made this process will be continued.
Goal
Student Satisfaction
Students will evaluate and express their satisfaction with the degree program learning experiences such as program content provided in degree program course work, opportunities for networking, and participation in professional organizations provided by degree program activities.
Objective
Student Evaluation Of Program Content, Networking And Professional Opportunities
Students will evaluate and express their satisfaction with the degree program learning experiences such as program content provided in degree program course work, opportunities for networking, and participation in professional organizations provided by degree program activities. While student evaluation of program-related learning experiences is a performance outcome, rather than a student learning outcome, it does provide degree program faculty with very valuable feedback based upon students' abilities to reflect upon the value of their educational activities.
Indicator
Exit Survey - Section On Student Evaluation Feedback By Major
The comprehensive Family and Consumer Sciences Exit Survey includes a student rating of the program content in the major and student rating of opportunities that were provided by the program to network and engage with professional organizations. Student ratings of these items will be extracted and analyzed to determine the level of student satisfaction with their learning experiences in these areas. A higher score indicates a higher level of satisfaction. The Exit Survey is a comprehensive instrument collaboratively developed, several years ago, by faculty of FCS degree programs, and also to test student knowledge in their program's content area. Although it is periodically reviewed for improvement by current faculty, most of the Exit Survey items remain stable from year to year. The Exit Survey is administered in paper form to students in several FCS Departmental degree programs. Student feedback pertaining to different degree program majors are differentiated and analyzed separately. A copy of the section of the Exit Survey which pertains to the student feedback has been attached.
Criterion
Exit Survey - Student Evaluation Ratings >3.0
80% of graduating seniors who complete an Exit Survey will rate the program content and opportunities for networking and professional organization participation in the major with a score of 3.0 or greater. A 4.0 point scale will be used for rating, where a higher score indicates a higher satisfaction rating.
Finding
Exit Survey - Student Evaluation Of Content, Networking, Professional Opportunities
100% of graduating seniors who completed an Exit Survey rated the opportunities for networking with a rating of 3.0 or greater, and 83.3% of graduating seniors rated program content and quality of professional organization in the major with a score of 3.0 or greater. Average scores of the group were 3.0 for networking, and 2.8 on each of the others, program content and the professional organization participation. A 4.0 point scale was used for rating, where a higher score indicates a higher satisfaction rating.
Action
Student Evaluation Of Content, Networking, Professional Opportunities
Even though interior design students rated opportunities for networking as satisfactory and were slightly less satisfied with the program content and the professional organization the interior design program will continue to improve the interior design program content by incorporating real world projects into course requirements, as well as having additional interior design professionals as guest speakers and/or providing opportunities to visit design facilities. The program will also encourage the student organization to provide opportunities for students to participate in interior design industry functions.