Major Fashion Merchandising
Stage 4

Assessment Activities

Assessment Methods
  • Quizzes, exams, or homework items linked to specific learning outcomes
  • Assignments based on rubrics (such as essays, projects, and performances)
  • Direct observation of performances, practical exams, group work
  • Capstone projects or final summative assignments
Assessment DescriptionMeasures whether the student achieves proficient fashion merchandising skills to obtain employment in real world employment? Collected data on percentage of students that obtained certificate and subsequent employment.
Learning OutcomesALL
Number of Courses18
Number of Students200

Data Analysis

Data Shared With
  • Faculty and staff within the same program (at CCSF)
  • Faculty and staff within the same department
Data Sharing Methods
  • Face-to-face meetings
  • Email
  • Phone
  • Shared document files
Data SummaryFashion merchandising students that receive the certificate, 80% had the skill set learned in their fashion merchandising classes to perform well in the retail environment.
Data AnalysisFashion Merchandising students have achieved outcome if they are able to create visual displays within stores, produce fashion shows, style clothing for mannequins and models, and write a fashion blog.
Next Steps Planned

The course outlines have been rewritten to reflect current industry trends.

Learning Outcomes

ALL

Changes

Details

Revised several course outlines.

Learning OutcomesALL

Tentative Future Assessment Plans

Assessment TermFall 2013
Assessment Activities
  • Revision of outcomes and assessment methods (measurements)
  • Assessment (measurement) of outcomes
  • Analysis and discussion of assessment data and next steps
Assessment DetailsRevision of course outline. Will add student surveys. will hold faculty meetings to share their analysis.

ILO Alignment and Assessment Plans

I.A. Use reason and creativity...Using reason and creativity to create effective fashion merchandising schematics and solutions.
I.B. Apply diverse viewpoints...The fashion merchandising program teaches students through classroom discussions to create effective fashion merchandising solutions through analysis of current fashion retail management.
I.C. Locate, retrieve, and evaluate information...Fashion merchandising students will be able to aggregate appropriate fashion merchandising research and harness technology to create the most current fashion merchandising choices.
Fall 2013 ILO Assessment PlansYes we plan to assess one of the above-mapped SLOs in Fall 2013.

SLO Details Storage Location

ELECTRONIC COPY - On a department web server or shared document system


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