Joseph Hoey

• Ed.D.
• Retired at N/A

This chapter describes the impact of an alternative spring break program on students at the Savannah College of Art and Design over a set of years as well as its effectiveness as a service-learning tool.

The intent of the authors in preparing this paper is to compare and contrast the roles of Institutional Research in informing decision making and governance in higher education. Using a case study format the authors will provide an example of a research project conducted within each of the following sectors of United States higher education system:...

While there exist many examples of institutional use of the results of the National Survey of Student Engagement (NSSE), there is a relative paucity of research explicitly linking student outcomes to responses on the survey. A major Doctoral-Extensive institution in the Southeast recently conducted a large-scale implementation of the National Surve...

Engineering curricula are increasingly focused on developing student competencies. Many new competencies needed by engineers today are professional skills (sometimes called the ‘soft skills’). Among the new competencies for engineering graduates is global competence, the ability to work knowledgeably and live comfortably in a transnational engineer...

Many students at minority-serving institutions are underexposed to Internet resources such as the human genome project, PubMed, NCBI databases, and other Web-based technologies because of a lack of financial resources. To change this, we designed and implemented a new bioinformatics component to supplement the undergraduate Genetics course at Clark...

While there exist many examples of institutional use of the results of the National Survey of Student Engagement (NSSE), there is a relative paucity of research explicitly linking student outcomes to responses on the survey. A major Doctoral-Extensive institution in the Southeast recently conducted a large-scale implementation of the National Surve...

This chapter reports on linked surveys of alumni and their employers and on a survey of college and departmental administrators regarding the impact of such surveys on planning, assessment, curriculum revision, and customer satisfaction efforts.

Six years after ABET Engineering Criteria 2000 , the practice of assessment remains inconsistently applied in the United States across engineering programs both among institutions and within disciplines. If assessment is to succeed as a long-term strategy for ongoing measurement of outcomes and continuous improvement of student learning, the high l...

Perhaps the most important goal of any engineering program that seeks to gather employer and alumni feedback is to get a clear picture of the work performance strengths and weaknesses of an institution's graduates. A basic problem in such assessment concerns the variety of data sources and types of feedback used. Different data sources have differe...

Six years after ABET Engineering Criteria 2000 , the practice of assessment remains inconsistently applied in the United States across engineering programs both among institutions and within disciplines. If assessment is to succeed as a long-term strategy for ongoing measurement of outcomes and continuous improvement of student learning, the high l...

Over a decade of mandated assessment, state-level evaluation requirements, and more recently the ABET Engineering Criteria 2000 have focused attention on the need to systematically assess student learning in engineering curricula. A primary impediment to the usefulness of systematic assessment lies in how the culture of assessment interacts with no...

The federal government empowered regional accreditation groups as custodians of quality in higher education. Additional mandates by state governments and, more recently, the Accrediting Board for Engineering and Technology Engineering require systematic assessment of student learning in the engineering curricula. Assessment practices, although not...

Regional and state evaluation mandates, and more recently the Accrediting Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET) Engineering Criteria 2000, have focused attention on the need to systematically assess student learning in engineering curricula. Excellence in assessment still appears in pockets and not as the norm for most engineering programs. A...

The federal government empowered regional accreditation groups as custodians of quality in higher education. Additional mandates by state governments and, more recently, the Accrediting Board for Engineering and Technology Engineering require systematic assessment of student learning in the engineering curricula. Assessment practices, although not...

Offering a course over the World Wide Web requires faculty to develop new technical skills and to develop course materials in a different manner than would be required for a traditional classroom based course. This paper reflects faculty experiences in developing web based courses for the first time and offers lessons learned to those who might con...

A study of program review at 156 community colleges shows that it is widely used for accountability and program improvement; that substantial use is made of results; and that key leadership support, organizational communication, a clear understanding of purposes, and frequent action on program review recommendations at all organizational levels are...

This chapter deals with organizational factors that promote the overall impact of program review at the college level and provides a theoretical framework for looking at the ways in which program review may affect community college programs.

Microsystems and Information Technology is the largest industry in the world, approximately $1.2 Trillion currently, and is expected to grow to $3.0 Trillion within a decade. To sustain this growth not only new products need to be brought to the global market place but also new human resources to develop them. Very few programs exist today in the U...

Perhaps the most important goal of any engineering program that seeks to gather employer and alumni feedback is to get a clear picture of the work performance strengths and weaknesses of an institution's graduates. A basic problem in such assessment concerns the variety of data sources and types of feedback used. Different data sources have differe...

This paper presents an assessment of the four-year-old Textile and Fiber Engineering (TFE) Undergraduate Mentoring program at Georgia Institute of Technology. The TFE Undergraduate Mentoring Program is an industry mentor and undergraduate student mentee program that pairs undergraduate students (primarily freshmen) in the School of Textile and Fibe...

Why is the practice of assessment inconsistently applied across engineering programs within the same university and among engineering disciplines across the country? Engineering Criteria 2000 1 which mandates programmatic assessment was initially adopted for application in 1996. Yet, six years after the adoption of the new criteria, why do we still...

Thesis (Ed. D.)--North Carolina State University, 1993. Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 169-180). Photocopy. s