USING A SYSTEMS METHODOLOGY TO IMPLEMENT AN ASSURANCE OF LEARNING PROCESS

Stories about lack of student learning have led to calls for more academic accountability. Governments and accrediting bodies have called upon institutions of higher learning to design assurance of learning (AOL) processes. The Department of Accounting at Kennesaw State University has had an assessment program for over 12 years. Several universities have described existing assessment programs (see, for example, Stivers, G., Campbell, J., & Hermanson, H. (2000). An assessment program for accounting: Design, implementation and reflection. Issues in Accounting Education, 15(4), 553–581; Davis, K., Green, S., Heppard, K., Jennings, W., & Lowe, J. (2004). Accounting Program Assessment at the United States Air Force Academy, Department of Management. In: T. Calderon, B. Green & M. Harkness (Eds), Best Practices in Accounting Program Assessment (pp. 99–114). Sarasota, FL: American Accounting Association; Weinstein, G. (2004). Accounting Program Assessment at John Carroll University. In: T. Calderon, B. Green & M. Harkness (Eds), Best Practices in Accounting Program Assessment (pp. 139–148). Sarasota, FL: American Accounting Association; Advances in Accounting Education: Teaching and Curriculum Innovations, Volume 8, 235–260 Copyright r 2007 by Elsevier Ltd. All rights of reproduction in any form reserved ISSN: 1085-4622/doi:10.1016/S1085-4622(07)08013-3