Program: Tropical Plant & Soil Sci (BS)
Date: Thu Sep 08, 2011 - 2:11:43 pm
1) Below are your program student learning outcomes (SLOs). Please update as needed.
Upon graduation from the TPSS curriculum, a student should be able to:
1. Understand basic plant morphology and be able to use it to identify plants commonly used in the discipline by scientific and common names.
2. Demonstrate fundamental knowledge of biological processes (e.g., life cycles, respiration, photosynthesis, reproduction, source-sink relations, dormancy, photoperiodism, photomorphogenesis) and be able to use this knowledge to interpret horticultural practices and produce quality horticultural crops.
3. Know how to apply appropriate plant management operations, including propagation, pruning & training, plant growth regulators, and environmental manipulations (light, temperature, water, nutrition, soil) in order to produce horticultural crops.
4. Know how to apply IPM strategies (agricultural chemicals or their alternatives and sustainable practices) properly, including scouting & monitoring, timing & scheduling, rotations, calculations, and safety procedures.
5. Understand the basis for genetics and fundamentals of plant breeding.
6. Apply principles of soil science in the management of field soils, displaced soils, and artificial substrates in containers.
7. Use technology effectively, including computer skills and be able to locate relevant data/research in hard copy as well as on line.
8. Speak effectively and write concisely on subject matter within the professional curriculum.
9. Realize the need for continuing education in the professional discipline through professional societies, short courses, conferences, use of the internet, and reading.
10. Work effectively in a team situation either as a leader or participant to define problems and identify resources and solutions.
11. Develop a global perspective on horticultural issues.
12. Develop an ethical perspective and sense of moral responsibility and values in making decisions that affect the (human) community and environment.
2) Your program's SLOs are published as follows. Please update as needed.
Student Handbook. URL, if available online:
Information Sheet, Flyer, or Brochure URL, if available online:
UHM Catalog. Page Number: 358
Course Syllabi. URL, if available online: http://www.ctahr.hawaii.edu/ctahr2001/TPSS/courselist.html
3) Below is the link(s) to your program's curriculum map(s). If we do not have your curriculum map, please upload it as a PDF.
- File (03/16/2020)
4) For your program, the percentage of courses that have course SLOs explicitly stated on the syllabus, a website, or other publicly available document is as follows. Please update as needed.
5) For the period June 1, 2010 to September 30, 2011: State the assessment question(s) and/or assessment goals. Include the SLOs that were targeted, if applicable.
6) State the type(s) of evidence gathered to answer the assessment question and/or meet the assessment goals that were given in Question #5.
7) State how many persons submitted evidence that was evaluated. If applicable, please include the sampling technique used.
8) Who interpreted or analyzed the evidence that was collected? (Check all that apply.)
Ad hoc faculty group
Persons or organization outside the university
Advisors (in student support services)
Students (graduate or undergraduate)
Other: No one
9) How did they evaluate, analyze, or interpret the evidence? (Check all that apply.)
Used professional judgment (no rubric or scoring guide used)
Compiled survey results
Used qualitative methods on interview, focus group, open-ended response data
External organization/person analyzed data (e.g., external organization administered and scored the nursing licensing exam)
10) For the assessment question(s) and/or assessment goal(s) stated in Question #5:
Summarize the actual results.
11) State how the program used the results or plans to use the results. Please be specific.
12) Beyond the results, were there additional conclusions or discoveries?
This can include insights about assessment procedures, teaching and learning, program aspects and so on.
13) Other important information.
Please note: If the program did not engage in assessment, please explain. If the program created an assessment plan for next year, please give an overview.
The department has received no resources to carry out this assessment. In the last year, we have lost 25% of our faculty and now have no one to carry out the assessment.