How Do You Measure Up?

Offering Online Business Degree Comprehensive (COMP) Exams

• Have you ever asked yourself how does your business program measure up?
• Do you have a direct assessment tool to measure the change in business education from the time a business major student enters your school until they graduate?
• Would you like to know the proficiency of graduating students?
• As an accredited business school, how do your students demonstrate CPCs (Common Professional Components) competency?

Business schools obtaining and/or sustaining accreditation must demonstrate student competency associated with specific business topics depending upon the requirements of the accreditation entity, government regulators, and key stakeholders. In response to these accreditation, we have developed online comprehensive exams that are unique for all academic levels (associates, bachelors, masters, & doctoral).

Accreditation & Accountability

For business program accreditation, it is critically important that you demonstrate program accountability to your stakeholders including government regulators, students, and your governing bodies as well as for the accrediting entities. Our CPC-based comprehensive exams will help you maintain your accountability by providing you with direct measures and student benchmarking in business education.

CPC Topics

As defined by business program accreditation organizations including the Association of Collegiate Business Schools and Programs (ACBSP) and the International Assembly for Collegiate Business Education (IACBE), the Common Professional Component (CPC) includes the following business topics:

• Marketing
• Business Finance
• Accounting
• Management
• Legal Environment of Business
• Economics
• Business Ethics
• Global Dimensions of Business
• Information Management Systems
• Quantitative Techniques/Statistics
• Business Leadership
• Business Integration and Strategic Management

Our CPC-Based Comprehensive Exams

Our CPC-based COMP exams are based on the academic level of the student (associate, bachelors, masters, and doctoral). Unlike other vendors of business degree COMP tests, we use unique material that is most appropriate for the degree level. Unique material based on the degree level is another essential requirement for accreditation direct measurement.

Our COMP exams work very well when used as an entrance/exit (inbound/outbound) direct measure assessment tool for your business academic program as required for program accreditation. Students take the inbound exam at the start of their business program. The student re-takes the same exam at the end of the program. The difference in scores is a direct measure of learning and business degree competency for the student. The cumulative difference in scores is your direct measure of learning success at the program level. When compared with demographically similar aggregate data, this fulfills your external benchmarking requirements for accreditation.

Comprehensive exams work very well for student benchmarking (taken before and after a program of study or degree plan). A comprehensive exam can also be an end of program CAPSTONE requirement. Comprehensive exams demonstrate learning accountability and can help you meet accreditation and/or regulatory requirements.

Customizing COMP Exams

We can customize our comprehensive exams to meet your specific direct measurement requirements (deleting or expanding CPC topics as needed). You select the topics and we will provide you with the test you need. We can expand a specific CPC topic or we can delete topics from your customized COMP exam test bank. With Peregrine Academic Services, you decide which business topics you need to test.

Are All COMP Exams the Same?

Consider…

Associate Degree Exams

Associate degree institutions must have a valid means of assessing student needs for developmental assistance by providing courses that assist students to improve identified deficiencies and demonstrating the development of assessed deficiencies. School officials must be able to explain the means of assessing student ability for advanced placement and they must have a systematic reporting mechanism for each business program that charts student academic success and program performance.

Using our CPC-based COMP exams for an Associate Degree assessment allows you to explain how your students perform from the time they enter your program until they graduate. With inbound/outbound testing, you can directly measure learning outcomes. You can also compare student results achieved with different methods of instructional delivery (e. g. traditional vs. online) with our cohort-level analysis of the test data.

Our CPC-based COMP exams for an Associate Degree program provide you with a summary of your strengths and opportunities for improvement for academic accountability.

We are the only higher education vendor that provides specific CPC-based testing for Associate Degree programs.

For accreditation purposes, school administrators select four or more CPCs to test. CPCs selected are based on their specific fit to your program.

Accreditation authorities require unique Associate Degree assessments for program-level benchmarking. Inbound and outbound testing of students with comprehensive data analysis fulfills the accreditation requirements for academic benchmarking and program-level assessment.

COMP Exam Pricing and Discounting

CPC-based COMP exams that cover all business topics are available for each academic degree level (associate, bachelors, masters, and doctoral). Discounts for institutional purchases of the COMP Exam keys are available based on annual enrollments. CPC-based COMP exams for an associate degree program cost $20; tests for the bachelors, masters, and doctoral levels cost $40.

Return on Investment with Our CPC Comprehensive Exam Tests

• Establishes a clear linkage between accreditation requirements relative to the required business education topical areas.
• Measures business topic competency in business education.
• Demonstrates progression of continuous learning and quality using the Malcolm Baldrige approach.
• Benchmarking students using an entrance/exit (in/out) construct.
• Demonstrated accountability with government regulators and other key education stakeholders.

Charting the Way Forward

If you like what you see with our online business degree COMP exams:

• Contact us by phone (1-877-260-1555) or by e-mail info@peregrineacademics.com.
• We will send you an order form for volume purchases of the exam keys. Exam keys are valid for 120 days, which covers the duration for most university courses.
• If you are looking to require your students to purchase the test from us as a requirement for their course, then you do not need to pre-order the exam keys.
• We also need a copy of your institution's logo (JPEG or GIF file) to include on completion certificate.
• We can also send you free exam keys so that you can evaluate the tests and the content