Abstract

As course-based undergraduate research experiences (CUREs) grow in numbers across colleges and universities assessment of learning outcomes for these experiences remain a challenge. In particular, courses at the freshman and sophomore levels that are integral to upper level courses in the major have both course design challenges and assessment challenges. This poster will focus on the process of redesigning a standard applied business statistics course into a CURE. The purpose of the redesign was to better prepare students for research intensive courses including their senior thesis. The poster will also present assessment data centered around meeting departmental goals in statistics. We will focus on the use of specifications grading to both support undergraduate research and focus students on the course/departmental learning outcomes.