1. Business Assessment Test Results
San Diego State University
2008

2. General Method 80 Multiple Choice Qs covering all business topics
Administered to 1,654 test takers on 9 CSU campuses during the AY (up from 6 campuses in 2007)
Questions come from a pool of questions developed across the CSU system
Analysis in 2007 allowed for the identification of 22 items of questionable validity.
Results this year were reported both “Unadjusted” (including the 22 items thus allowing for comparisons to previous years’ results) and “Adjusted” (omitting the 22 items thus providing for a more valid test.

3. SDSU Method
Exam administered in almost all sections of MGT 405, during regular class time
480 students took the exam (29% of total sample – largest of all campuses).
All students received some form of incentive though method varied
Not true with all other CSU campuses
SDSU split into “Calculator Use Allowed” and “No Calculators” to test for differences
Previous and current administration across CSU bans calculators

4. SDSU Calculator Use Results
Sub-Test
W/ Calculator Mean
W/O Calculator Mean
F Statistic
Significance Level
MGMT
65.63
67.07
0.579
.447
ACC
55.25
52.81
1.432
.232
B-LAW
49.16
44.58
5.79
.017
FIN
44.69
43.88
0.199
.655
STATS
43.36
42.97
0.038
.845
ECON
51.60
49.15
1.513
.219
MKT
68.01
68.90
0.245
.621
MIS
61.56
61.80
0.14
.904
TOTAL
55.47
54.30
1.083
.299

5. Average Performance All CSU SDSU Mean (Adjusted) 52.96% 54.86%
Mean (Unadjusted)
49.00%
50.80%

6. Comparative Statistics
CAMPUS
MEAN #1
65.08%
#2 – San Diego
54.86% #3
54.39% #4
53.47% #5
52.74% #6
52.69% #7
49.37% #8
49.23% #9
49.18%

7. SDSU Subject Area Results Percent of questions answered correctly within each subject area
All
Majors
Non-Majors
Marketing
72.46
83.14
72.30
Management
66.78
67.86
66.48
MIS
61.74
81.25
60.66
Accounting
53.90
71.94
49.49
Economics
50.44
Business Law
46.63
Finance
44.19
54.66
41.19
Statistics
43.27

8. SDSU Longitudinal Comparisons
Year
Mean
2008*
50.80%
2007
50.25%
2006
50.10%
2005
2004
50.63%
* Unadjusted Scores in order to make meaningful comparisons; all test takers (Calculator Users & Non-Calculator Users)