¶ … Criminal Justice Department has been asking graduating seniors to take an exit exam as a measure of departmental learning outcomes. How could that tool be used to determine if the criminal justice major is effective? Please assess, in detail, in the context of this week's chapter readings.
An exit exam could indeed be extremely effective in assessing whether the criminal justice major is effective in a range of capacities. First of all, it will test simply how much of the learning outcomes and themes each student absorbed. The key part of this aspect of the exam is that it will properly assess how much was retained. Given all the years of certain criminal justice programs at certain facilities (ranging from two to four), it will see what the major learning themes and ideas were experienced the highest level of retention for individual students and whether students were able to capitalize on that retention, as students in an academic environment...
After graduation, those two students are going to turn into professionals in the field of criminal justice. There will thus be two types of professionals: those which experience success at reducing crime and making the world as safer place, and those which do not. This is vital information that educational institutions absolutely need to know: the stakes are extremely high: making the world a better, safer place. Since this is an objective they should truly want to achieve, they should want to know which of their educational tactics and techniques are most effective at accomplishing this by creating informed individuals…
