PART I: QUALITATIVE INFORMATION

1. Assessment
   • Departmental Assessment Plan
   • IBHE Program Review outcome: Next review scheduled for 2004.
   • IBHE Alumni Survey results
   • Undergraduate Student Survey Results: NA
   • Accreditation reports/results: Program was fully accredited by NCATE/NCSS in November, 2001.
2. Active student learning opportunities: Students participate in pre-student teaching clinical experiences during the major's methods class and complete a full semester of student teaching.
3. Strategies to improve P-16 teaching and learning
   • Professional development for practicing educators, including workshops, courses, conferences and degree programs: The Social Science Studies Program each year co-sponsors the Annual History Teachers Conference.
   • The Social Science Studies Program has begun the organization of a network of social studies teachers in order to increase linkages between the program and teachers working in the schools.
4. Collaborative activities with business/industry: None reported.
5. Pass rates on any professional/ occupational licensure exams: Pass rates on the Social Science Test of the Illinois Certification Testing System are as follow: FA 2001--September administration: 100 per cent, December administration: 83 per cent; SP 2002-- March administration: 83 per cent; SU 2002--June administration: 70 per cent.
6. Faculty Achievements: Chair of program served as a member of the Board of Directors and past president of the Charleston Community Unit One Excellence in Education Foundation, which supports through grants innovative and creative teaching-learning projects in the local schools, and as a member of the Board of Trustees of the Coles County Historical Society.
7. Student Achievements: One recipient of the Errett and Mazie Warner Scholarship (SP 2002); One nominee for the Livingston C. Lord Scholarship (SP 2002); three recipients of the National Social Science Awards awarded by the United States Achievement Academy (FA 2001).