Assessment Plans and Writing across the MIS Curriculum
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چکیده
A key to success for management information systems (MIS) graduates is good communication skills, especially writing skills. An effort to incorporate writing assignments and instruction into a sequence of MIS courses at a major midwestern university is having the unintended but substantial benefit of helping the MIS program create an assessment plan that includes all elements required by the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB), the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET), and the regional accrediting agencies. The process used to develop the assessment and writing plans is described and discussed in this research-in-progress summary.
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