San Diego State University

2011

80 Multiple Choice Qs covering all business topics Administered to 2,025 test takers on 10 CSU

campuses during the 2010-2011 Academic Year Questions come from a pool of questions

developed across the CSU system Exam was significantly revised in 2010 by a

consortium of CSU schools. Revision aimed at improving validity and comprehensiveness. As a result of revision, BAT now includes measures of:

Global Operations Ethics

Exam administered in Spring sections of MGT 405, during regular class time*, 48.6% of all Spring 405 students took the exam.

305 students took the exam (15.1% of total sample).

All students received some form of extra credit incentive Not true with all other CSU campuses

Following 2008 findings that calculator use did not make a difference in performance, test administration has reverted to “No Calculators Allowed”

*MWF sections excluded due to lack of in-class time.

All CSU SDSU

Mean 56.49% 57.92%

CAMPUS MEAN

SDSU 57.92%

#2 54.90%

#3/#4 (Tie) 54.43%

#3/#4 (Tie) 54.43%

#5 53.71%

#6 53.51%

#7 52.63%

#8 50.69%

#9 47.60%

#10 38.64%

SDSU ALL CSU

Marketing 66.00 65.34

Management 75.20 72.15

Information Systems 54.74 59.14

Accounting 50.00 51.94

Finance 59.7 55.05

Business Law 42.28 44.51

Statistics 58.00 49.50

Operations 61.17 56.78

Ethics 93.3 90.73

Global 42.30 40.63

Economics 48.00 49.39

All Majors

Accounting 50.2 69.1

Economics 48.0

Ethics 93.3

Finance 59.7 77.3

Information Systems 54.7 81.8

Global/International 42.3 45.0

Law 42.3

Management 75.2 78.0

Marketing 66.0 72.9

Operations 61.2

Statistics 58.0

Overall Performance: 58.0% 301 Non-Takers 55.9%

40.7% of the test takers

(FIN – 60.2%, IS – 48.2%, IB – 52.1%) 301 Takers 59.2%

(ACC, MGT, MKT) 59.3% of the test takers

Among 301 Takers: MKT (requires “C”) 57.0% Others (ACC, 62.2% & MGT, 58.5%)

Status Full-Time

Part-Time

Mean Score

58.2 55.4

Gender Male Female

Mean Score

60.6 54.9

Status Native Transfer

Mean Score

57.3 58.6

Home Language

English

Other

English/Other Balanced

Mean Score 58.5 56.0 55.4

Age 20-25

26-30

31-35

36+

Mean Score

57.4 61.5 53.9 66.2

Hrs Worked

Mean Score

0-10 56.2

11-20 57.3

21-30 60.7

31-40 57.8

> 40 57.5

Ethnicity

Mean Score

Asian 57.3

Black 53.3

Hispanic

54.6

White 60.1

Other 54.0

Year Revised Test Mean

Unadjusted Mean

Adjusted Mean

2011 57.92%

2010 53.14% 56.41%

2009 51.48% 55.33%

2008 50.80% 54.86%

2007 50.25%

2006 50.10%

2005 50.25%

2004 50.63%