1. Assessment of Learning (AOL) in Undergraduate Business Analytics (BSAN) Courses BSAN I: Business Statistics BSAN II: Introduction to Management Science
Ping Wang, Ph.D
Department of Computer Information Systems / Business Analytics
James Madison University
Harrisonburg, VA 22807

2. Assessment at James Madison University
University – wide assessment
For many years
All of the programs on campus
The university assessment day in Spring semester
College of Business
Assessment activities for each major
Comments from AACSB campus visit
For majors in the last ten to fifteen years

3. Assessment of Learning for Business statistics
Business Analytics Curriculum Committee
For the last ten to fifteen years
Confidential policy: the results are either shared nor reported at department / college level
Communications among business courses that have Business Statistics as prerequisite course
What to assess? Basic concepts, statistical reasoning skills, and problem solving skills
Assessment instruments: Course – wide common final exam, and Excel skills for graphical and numerical statistics

4. Course – wide Common Final Exam
From basic concepts to hypothesis tests
Comprehensive, but more on central limit theorem and inferential statistics
55 questions for the contents of the whole course
Reports:
Done by one senior faculty member
Average percentage of students answered correctly for each question
The instructor’s percentage of students answered correctly for each question
Marking of within, below, or above the two standard deviation limits for each question
Improvements in teaching 

5. Assessment of using Excel skills
Instruments
Excel for graphical descriptive statistics
Excel for numerical descriptive statistics