Institutional Assessment
Major Field Assessment
Graduating seniors at Tennessee Tech take Major Field Exams in their disciplines if
licensure exams are not required. The benchmark for major field exams is that the
institutional average score from Tennessee Tech graduates exceeds the national average.
As scheduled in 2015-2020 THEC Performance Funding plan, each program has to report
its major field exam once during the 5-year cycle to THEC as part of the performance
funding requirements. The results of major field exams in 17 programs reported to
THEC are shown in the table below. Of the 17 programs, nine programs achieved the
scores at or exceeding the respective national average (% Inst. to Comp. Score >100%)
and seven of the other eight programs achieved the scores higher than 93% of the respective
national average (% Inst. to Comp. Score >93%).
Academic Program | Degree | Test Year | Test Code | No. of Tested | TTU Inst. Score | Comp. Score | % Inst. to Comp. Score |
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Wildlife & Fisheries Science | BS | 2015-16 | ACAT | 38 | 488.2 | 500.0 | 98% |
Biology | BS | 2015-16 | ACAT | 70 | 462.6 | 500.0 | 93% |
Mathematics | BS | 2015-16 | ETS | 11 | 173.0 | 156.3 | 100% |
Chemistry | BS | 2015-16 | ETS | 29 | 150.2 | 148.2 | 100% |
Communication | BS | 2016-17 | ACAT | 42 | 562.2 | 500.0 | 112% |
Computer Science | BS | 2016-17 | ETS | 31 | 158.4 | 147.4 | 107% |
Engineering Technology | BSET | 2016-17 | ATMAE | 47 | 106.2 | 99 | 100% |
History | BA, BS | 2016-17 | ACAT | 16 | 496 | 500 | 99% |
Business Management | BSBA | 2017-18 | ETS | 120 | 148.2 | 149.5 | 99% |
Accounting | BSBA | 2017-18 | ETS | 59 | 152.9 | 149.5 | 100% |
Finance | BSBA | 2017-18 | ETS | 38 | 150.0 | 149.5 | 100% |
Marketing | BSBA | 2017-18 | ETS | 43 | 146.1 | 149.5 | 98% |
Agriculture | BSAG | 2018-19 | ACAT | 70 | 493.8 | 500.0 | 99% |
English | BA | 2018-19 | ETS | 15 | 147.4 | 152.0 | 97% |
Psychology | BS | 2018-19 | ETS | 34 | 152.4 | 155.0 | 98% |
Sociology | BS | 2018-19 | ETS | 58 | 145.0 | 148.0 | 98% |
Human Ecology | BSHE | 2019-20 | Local | 36 | 67.8 | 62.6 | 100% |
Geosciences | BS | 2019-20 | ACAT | 8 | 463.6 | 500 | 93% |
Political Science | BS | 2019-20 | ETS | 22 | 146.3 | 150.9 | 97% |