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Assessment Of Student Learning Outcomes In Professional Athletic Training Programs, Mary Elizabeth Westby

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The purpose of this study was to examine the type of program-level student learning outcomes (SLOs) that athletic training programs (ATPs) are citing and how athletic training programs are assessing these student learning outcomes (assessment environment and measurement utilized for assessment). This study utilized a cross-sectional web-based survey of ATP directors to gather program-level data on the variables. Data analysis involved descriptive statistics for frequency counts of SLOs, assessment measure type, assessment environment, and related groupings of those variables. The five most frequently cited SLOs were evidence-based practice and related areas, critical thinking and related areas, Board of Certification (BOC) …