OATdb Archive - Sam Houston State University

OATdb Archive

2014 - 2015

Public Health BS

Goal

Public Health Domains

Each student enrolled in the BS in Public Health will be proficient in content knowledge in each of the nine core Public Health Domains.

Objective

Content Knowlege In Core Public Health Domains

Each student enrolled in the BS in Public Health will be proficient in content knowledge in each of the nine core Public Health Domains: 1) Determinants of Health, 2) History, Philosophy, Values, and Functions of Public health, 3) Indentifying and Addressing Public Health Challenges, 4) Health Systems, 5) Using Data in Public Health, 6) Human Health and Disease, 7) Health Policy, Law, Ethics, and Economics, 8) Assesment, Planning, Implemention and Evaluation, 9) Health Communication.

Indicator

Content Knowledge In Core Public Health Domains

A group of exam questions, cumulative course grades, course projects and demonstrations in the Public Health BS curriculum will be used to assess the students content knowlege for the core Public Health Domains.

Criterion

Demonstration Of Content Knowledge In Core Public Health Domains

Criteria will be set for each of the nice core Public Health Domains:

1) Determinants of Health:
HLTH 1360--TBD
HLTH 2383--TBD
HLTH 4390?--TBD

2) History, Philosophy, Values, and Functions
HLTH 3350--TBD
HLTH 4380--TBD
HLTH 1360--TBD

3) Identifying and Addressing Populations Health Challenges
HLTH 3350--TBD
HLTH 1360--TBD
HLTH 2383?--TBD
HLTH 4390?--TBD

4) Health Systems
HLTH 3355--TBD
HLTH 3350?--TBD
HLTH 4380?--TBD

5) Using Data in Public Health
HLTH 3360--TBD
HLTH 3350?--TBD

6) Human Health and Disease
HLTH 3391--TBD
HLTH 1360?--TBD

7) Health Policy, Law, Ethics, Economics
HLTH 3350--TBD
HLTH 4387?--TBD
HLTH 4380?--TBD

8) Assessment, Planning, Implementation and Evaluation
HLTH 4393--TBD
HLTH 4387--TBD
HLTH 3350?--TBD

9) Health Communication
HLTH 3392--TBD
HLTH 4393?--TBD

Goal

Integrative Experience

Students enrolled in the BS in Public Health will show they can integrate, apply, and sythesize knowledge through cumulative and experiential activities.

Objective

Culmulative Experience

Through a cumulative experience, Public Health students will demonstrate they can sythesize, integrate and apply their acquired knowlege and skills as the academic capstone to thier learning.

Indicator

Capstone Project

As the final project for HLTH 4393, students will complete a capstone project, which will require them to demonstrate they can integrate and apply the core content knowlege for the Public Health Domains

This could be either scholarly or applied. For example, they could be asked to do a grant proposal with sections requiring key knowlege from each domain.

Criterion

Captone Project

90% of the students will earn of grade of at least 75% on thier capstone projects.

Finding

Old Project Results

We have not yet implemented the new pbulic health capstone project in all secitons. The old program that will be replaced is the Fundraising Activity. Here are the findings for the old project:

Fall 2014: 27/40 earned a 90% or better
Spring 2015: 17/33 earned a 90% or better

Objective

Field Exposure

Public Health Students will demonstrate entry-level competency in an applied setting. Field exposures will give students: A) the chance to apply the knowledge and skills they have learned real-world setting, B) exposure to interdicipinary departments and teamwork, C) professional mentoring, and D) opportunities to network and prepare for employment.

KPI

Professional Internship Goals

Each student completing HLTH 4393 will develop, track and report internship goals and objectives, including those related to: A) knowledge/skill application, B) interdisciplinary exposure, C) mentoring, and D) professional preparation and networking

Result

Goals For Internship

All fo the five students who completed the internship with a passing grade, participated in allfour of these activies.

Result

Internship Goals

All five students who completed the internship with a passing grade participated in a all four of these activities.

KPI

Professional Internship Completion

All students must register for and pass six hours of internship in an appropirate public health setting with a qualified supervisor. Students will be evaluated, via rubrics, by both their faculty and internship supervisors.

Result

Internship Completion

Since the degree has been offered five students have graduated or applied for graduation. All five have completed completed the internship with a grade of A or B.

Objective

Professionalism

Each Public Health student will demonstrate both competence in entry level knowledge and professionalism.

KPI

Portfolio

Each Public Health student will create a professional online portfolio (likely o GoogleSites or LinkedIn site). Students will include representative work in each each of several designated areas of competency, as well as a professional bio, resume, and career goals.

The Porfolio will be evaluted, via rubric, by at least one faculty member.

Result

Portfolio

Here are the results for the last two semesters of porfolio projects:

Fall 2014: 27/40 earned a 90% or better
Spring 2015: 25/33 earned a 90% or better

Update to previous cycle's plan for continuous improvement New entity for 2014-2015.

Plan for continuous improvement As the director of this new program, I created very detailed goals, objectives and criterion to match the evidence we will eventually need to meet accreditation criteria. My rationale is that we could eventually be reporting the same datapoints for both OATDB and accreditation. We have more than a dozen regular and adjunct faculty teaching the fourteen required courses for this degree. I have identified the courses in which the criteria will likely fall, but we have not met as a full faculty to discuss and agree upon the evidence and artifacts that will be consistently present in each section of a course to meet these criteria, nor how they will be aggregated for this report. As a new department with nearly 1500 students and only four fulltime faculty members, we did not have the resources for this level of collaboration our first year. This will take extensive coordination particularly for the Public Health Domains content areas, with dozens of criteria. The improvement needed in this early stage of this new program is to reach this level of agreement and compliance and to set up a system for reporting this data. This is our plan for the coming year.